Word: correcting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rest of the community (and zero input from the student body). Indeed, in the last Board of Overseers' election, there was an attempt to manipulate the outcome of the election, and President Bok himself initiated this subversion of a democratic process. So the university's authority in setting the correct norms for further debate on the South Africa issue is questionable...
...they came across a compound of barium, lanthanum, copper and oxygen that seemed promising. When Bednorz tested the compound, he was startled to see signs of super-conductivity at an unprecedented 35 K, by far the highest temperature at which anyone had observed the phenomenon. Could this result be correct? Aware of some hastily made superconductivity claims that later could not be reproduced, the IBM team proceeded cautiously, painstakingly repeating their experiments. In April 1986, Muller and Bednorz finally submitted the findings to the German journal Zeitschrift fur Physik, which published it five months later...
...correct when he termed the issues involved "important, difficult and eminently worth discussing" in a recent letter to Rivers. The president's suggestion, in the same letter, that Rivers and other concerned students conduct their own, informal investigations of the alleged discrimination against Epps makes it likely that attention will focus on those issues but does not make us confident that much about the Epps and Evans cases will be learned...
...editorial on U.S. support for the contras (April 20), David S. Graham arrives at the correct conclusion--that our policy of low intensity war and economic aggression the people of Nicaragua "has thus far only created more corpses"--but does so in a manner that ignores the history of U.S. intervention in Nicaragua and distorts the current situation in that country...
...judge later dropped the attempted murder charges, but the state's highest court reinstated them in July, holding that the prosecutor was correct to argue that Goetz's actions must be judged by whether he acted as a "reasonable man" might have in the same situation...