Word: correcting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...WOULD LIKE TO CORRECT AN ERROR that appeared in your article "Hauling UPS's Freight" [BUSINESS, Jan. 29]. A graphic accompanying the story identified UPS as the "biggest contributor" to the Coalition on Occupational Safety and Health. In fact, UPS did not make any financial contribution to that organization, although we have contributed to the support of other efforts on OSHA reform. Also, you did not point out that the Teamsters' PAC fund (the Teamsters represent 170,000 UPS employees) spent $8.5 million in the 1993-94 election cycle, more than twice UPS PAC spending for the same period...
Newly released notes taken during a January 1994 meeting describe top advisers to the President talking about sending an emissary to Arkansas to make sure a key Whitewater figure, Beverly Bassett Schaffer, a former state securities commissioner, would keep on describing her dealings with Mrs. Clinton as correct and proper. Republicans say the discussion showed an attempt to influence Schaffer's testimony...
...seeking to appeal to voters as the only acceptable alternative to communist and nationalist candidates that he says would turn back from reforms. "I spend sleepless nights analyzing what we have done and thinking about the future," Yeltsin said. "Every time, I feel convinced we have chosen the correct path and we must not steer away from that under any circumstances." Even as Yeltsin spoke, in Moscow communists unanimously chose Gennady Zyuganov to oppose Yeltsin in the June 16 elections. Currently the owner of a healthy lead over Yeltsin in the polls, Zyuganov charges Yeltsin's reforms have done little...
...also will amend the Doles' federal income-tax returns to correct a separate mistake: speech income that she should have claimed on her returns. Mrs. Dole gave at least seven speeches, worth $16,000, in 1991-94 to civic groups that erroneously paid her honorariums directly to the Red Cross. A lawyer for Mrs. Dole asserts that she paid the proper amount in taxes, though she might face civil penalties for failing to report the misrouted money. Now that she's correcting the problem, first suggested by the Los Angeles Times last month, the political deduction could be small...
...real changes come with developing. Magnetic codes on the film will instruct photo-processing equipment to correct for errors like insufficient light and will automatically record camera settings. Instead of messy negatives, you get back the tidy little film cartridge--negatives inside--plus a sheet of thumbnail prints to use as a guide for duplicates...