Word: correcting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Professor of Law Robert Clark said that Bok'sdecision in the Trubek case "was a difficult one,but the correct decision...
...fail to understand the logic of the pump dispenser. Do we need a machine to tell us how much is the correct amount of toothpaste to dispense onto your brush? I, for one, never have had much difficulty in this calculation. Nor have I ever had much trouble in taming that pesky tube cap from running out of the bathroom before I could firmly reseal it onto the top of the tube...
...answer the questions you are asked," & even intrusive ones. Lechery deserves discussion, he said, because "I don't think that's the way we want our leaders to act. I don't think that's a good role model for the country." Jackson insisted that Hart had been correct in ducking the adultery question. A candidate's morality, he said, should be judged by his stands on issues such as South African policy and the contras as well as bedroom behavior. Intimate inquiry is legitimate, Jackson contended, only when "some illicit relationship was having some bearing on national interest...
...reflection upon Nietzschean critic and philosopher Paul de Man's tendency to regard "subjectivity itself as a rhetorical effect rather than a cause" observes that we become what we choose to read through the filtering composite "differences" of our individual experience. Johnson proposes that the politically correct reading lies in that which "encounters and propagates the surprise of otherness." The search for this "otherness" becomes the goal of interpretation...
Your story on the debate over two replacement aircraft carriers for the Navy ((NATION, April 27)) inaccurately reported my position. The article, quoting an October memorandum, implied that I did not support the two-carrier concept. Such a conclusion is simply not correct...