Word: correcting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...called boy even as a middle aged man and relegated to the ranks of simple farmhands, is the farms co-proprietor and a man of substance in the local black community. Lurie is unsure how to relate to Petrus: at first he seems determined to like him, the politically correct thing to do in the situation. But a shockingly violent incident involving Lucy changes everything. Suddenly Lurie is doubly disgracedfor his failure as a father to help his own daughter and for his abuse of the child-like student. Luries reaction to the incident is the opposite of Lucys...
...When we enter the building, we see folks strewn about the foyer and stairs, and we eventually find our way to the correct corridor. The party is winding down a bit, but still has ample attendees. The keg is definitely the sketchiest observed of the evening, as it is being kept in a garbage can, which is still accepting trash even with the keg inside. The guy serving is straddling it. Feeling the freedom that comes from having almost reached my goal, I dance a bit with Team Tag-along. Being on his home turf, Quadling Tad is pursued more...
...Donin said that the legal definitions of blackmail and extortion are not correct characterizations of what "Rhys and Douglas" did, though the lawyer confirmed that the University had been solicited about buying the web site names...
...string of sequels. Last December's bombs - and eight years of sanctions - have failed to dislodge him, and Washington has now been forced to accept that the reservations expressed by its European and Arab allies over bombing - and the resultant removal of United Nations weapons monitors - may have been correct. So with the U.N. Security Council meeting Friday or Saturday to adopt a resolution easing some sanctions against Iraq in exchange for Baghdad's accepting a new monitoring system, Defense Secretary William Cohen has been drumming up domestic support for a shift by insisting that the key to stopping Saddam...
...know something about reading, writing and arithmetic to get passed to the next grade. For the last five years, claims special investigator Edward Stancik, some kids have just waltzed into class, written their test answers on notebook paper, and sat back as their teachers filled in the correct answers on the little bubble forms. And then, clutching their students' miraculously improved test results and passing rates, teachers and principals got raises, promotions and general acclaim...