Word: correcting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Laurence I. Barrett. "In Congress, there is too much dissension within each House and within each party. In the White House, there is serious question whether Reagan fully understands what is involved. There is also a dearth of both acumen and independent thinking around him. If this analysis is correct, there is good reason to believe that Gramm-Rudman will turn out to be either a means of ravaging many Government functions, including quite legitimate ones, or a malign illusion that merely defers the real day of judgment on the deficit...
...heart of the controversy last week was the question of whether Thatcher was involved in leaking to the press a letter about the two bids. That letter, dated Jan. 6, was sent by Sir Patrick Mayhew, Britain's Solicitor-General, to Heseltine. In it, Mayhew urged Heseltine to correct "material inaccuracies" in his version of the ongoing battle. These had been contained in an earlier letter from the then Defense Minister to a representative of the European consortium...
...nose-thumbing gesture, some Congressmen said they regretted having rejected the military funding. Ortega's government has cracked down further on the freedom of the clergy and the press. "People have come to know the real nature of that regime, and there's more support now to try to correct it," insisted an aide to Chief of Staff Donald Regan...
...want to sound callous but one of the things we always worry about in a tragedy like yesterday's is the money it's going to take to correct [the problem] is likely to come out of the hide of unmanned [projects]," said John W. Freeman, a Rice University space physicist...
...gave Harvard the benefit of the doubt. It's privy to far more information than I or virtually any other student here. I assumed, and still believe I made the correct assumption, that the University knew best how to influence change in a place that even it said needed change. But things haven't improved in South Africa and thousands have died needlessly since those editorials in the spring. And now time is running out. Harvard's divestment wouldn't wreak economic or social havoc on that country, and would be nothing more than symbolic...