Word: correcting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this institution equip my child in ways that generate confidence? Will I be able to find some diamonds in the rough?" Zemsky's scheme "got us all thinking about how we evaluate ourselves," says Freeman Hrabowski III, president of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. "And the emphasis is correct; it's on outcomes. Parents can now say, 'My son or daughter is interested in becoming a scientist. What's your record in producing scientists...
...with our teen runaways (just married in a sequence which cuts between another hilarious murder and the ceremony, a la Godfather's baptism), only to be murdered in most bizarre fashion by two satanic dolls. The dolls then tongue and screw, all the while making jokes about being anatomically correct and using "rubbers." (Cuz they're plastic, get it?) Needless to say, this is a special movie...
...politically correct like to avoid absolute judgments, but Margaret Thatcher, Mansfield's recommendation for a future speaker, has surely had a greater historical impact than the three cited selections combined. Of course, today's students, immune to right-wing propaganda, no longer think winning the Cold War was all that important. Nor was rescuing Britain's ailing socialist economy a sufficiently compassionate enterprise to earn Maggie their respect. Still, in the spirit of pluralism, maybe Harvard should invite that heartless statesperson to say her piece...
...civilization acknowledges that all citizens operate at different levels of physical ability. We provide social security and Medicare to those no longer able to work. The handicapped use special ramps, restrooms and close-captioned televisions. The government's considerations indicate that individuals are correct to offer help...
...starting to develop precocious Harvard 'tudes of their own. None of the so-called cool frosh (oxymoron check!) will deign to eat at Annenberg, so they're flooding the House dining halls. Watch out for the scarcely postpubescent on the prowl for upperclassman friendship, fun, and more. Yech. The correct response to, "Hey baby, what's your concentration?" is to forget your tray and bus your ass out of there...