Word: correcting
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...denied the results of a recent USA Today poll that found a majority of Americans, both Democrats and Republicans, believe the budget deficit is the single most pressing issue. "That is status quo thinking. [The result of the poll] is just not correct," du Pont said...
...meant to appreciate this when Bukowski's alter ego Henry abruptly leaves the bed of the wealthy and beautiful young editor Tully Sorenson (Alice Krige). He tells her that she "lives in a cage with golden bars," and shambles back down the hill to the sordid. but politically correct furnished flat that he shares with Wanda...
Athletics is like playing an instrument. Anyone can put the notes together in the correct order, but only a gifted few can truly make music...
Solow is a leading advocate of government intervention to correct the natural imbalances of the marketplace, a strategy that has fallen into disfavor under this Administration. He won his prize for a pioneering 1956 study demonstrating that the rate of technological progress does more to determine an industrialized country's growth than the size of its labor force or its investments in new factories or equipment. Solow's "theoretical model had an enormous impact on economic analysis," said the academy's statement. In the years since then, governments around the world have taken his lesson to heart. The revolution...
...there is an impressive consensus, in the U.S. and abroad, on how to begin to correct the imbalances in the American economy. The President and the Democratic-controlled Congress must agree, right away, on a package of measures that hold some real promise of reducing the budget deficit steadily and substantially. Certainly these must include painful spending cuts. But ^ they must also include tax increases, much as Reagan hates the thought. Not because they are any panacea; indeed they carry a serious risk. Higher taxes might reduce consumer spending just when a recession is beginning, and deepen the slump...