Word: correcting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...plane's computerized warning system never alerted the crew that the flaps were not extended. At week's end a co-pilot of a nearby Northwest jet who said he observed Flight 255's ill- fated takeoff insisted that the slats and flaps on the plane were in the correct position...
...this prediction proves correct, nobody will be quicker to sound the alarm than Congress. Both Houses passed legislation earlier this year to "codify" the fairness doctrine, but President Reagan vetoed it as "antagonistic to the freedom of expression." Congressional backers of the doctrine are preparing to try again, and one of them, Democratic Senator Ernest F. Hollings of South Carolina, denounced last week's FCC action as "wrongheaded, misguided and illogical." They face an uphill battle, though, against both the Administration and the press. As the Washington Post pointedly editorialized, "The FCC has done the right thing, and Congress should...
...government launched an all-out campaign against gouging last month, giving inspectors the power to impose fines, shut down shops and force owners to post prices. The names of closed shops are published in daily newspapers, along with the correct costs of basic items. On a morning radio show called Hello, Have a Good Day, listeners have repeatedly complained about high prices and profiteering. Some gripe that while government employees can barely make ends meet, a few merchants are getting richer and richer. Nonetheless, the social and political status of the bazaari, the powerful businessmen who traditionally have...
However, Bok is correct to point out that an American liberal arts education fails to examine meaningfully cultures other than its own. Bok's proposal to send more Harvard students overseas would be a more effective means of addressing this problem. If turned into a graduation requirement that demanded evidence of serious study instead of the lesuirely vacationing that prevails with many semesters abroad, such a move would force undergraduates to acquire the familiarity with another country that comes only through first-hand experience. And as Bok hopes, these students also could act out their roles as undercover agents...
...does, could allow the Soviets to provide both the labor and materials to build our multimillion-dollar Moscow embassy. And then when it is finished, we are surprised to find it riddled with bugs ((NATION, June 29)). Now Americans are asked to spend millions of dollars more to correct it. I find that amazing, incomprehensible and stupid...