Word: correcting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...keep him from going public. DeBarba says the calculations that Holtec and Galatis used were overly conservative and that experience told him there was no problem. The pool hadn't boiled, so it wouldn't boil. If a problem ever developed, there would be plenty of time to correct it before it reached the crisis stage. "We live and work here. Why would we want an unsafe plant? We had internal debate on this topic," DeBarba told TIME. "Legitimate professional differences of opinion." In 1977, he says, the NRC stated, "We could make the choice [of a full-core...
Whatever the answer may be, randomization is not the correct one. At best, the class of '99 infiltrates the houses, and by the time we graduate each house will be "remarkably diverse." At worst, it is a tremendous disaster, and the administration reverts to the previous policy, leaving our class stranded with its muddled and miserable blocking groups...
...there is another tradition in America that I am rather fond of--free elections and selfdetermination. I wasn't in New Hampshire, so I can't be sure, but I don't think there were armed soldiers forcing people to vote, against their will, for Pat Buchanan. Please correct me if I'm wrong. People have a right to vote for whomever they wish. Would Ms. Schacter disqualify Jesse Jackson from ever running for public office because he once called New York "Hymietown...
...plastic purple container that might normally hold a shot of creamer, filled instead with the grape juice most American Protestants use to celebrate the Lord's Supper. The Communion wafer nestles between layers of a pull-tab lid. The item, assures Johnson, is "liturgically correct." The cups cost 10¢ each. "No waste, no hassle," says Johnson. And no germs. The cup's press kit notes that it may help prevent the spread of meningitis, although Johnson says, "We are careful not to sell fear. That's not what this cup is about...
...precisely because seniors are (on average) better readers and writers that they will get more out of Senior Seminars than first-years. The faculty can be sure that difficult texts will be understood; they will not need to serve as writing teachers, who must correct split infinitives and demand parallel construction. On efficiency grounds--getting the best use of the senior faculty's time--Senior Seminars are clearly preferable to Freshman Seminars...