Word: correcting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...improve, to jolt slumbering minds into wakefulness. Even if my contrarian opinions have been incorrect, I hope they have made you rethink received opinion and conventional wisdom, as J. S. Mill suggested they might. But I conjecture, with reserve, that at least some of my contrarian opinions have been correct. If so, I hope they have made you reject received opinion and conventional wisdom...
Only last weekend I was characterized (good-naturedly) as someone who would like to have lived a century or two ago. I suppose that comports with my acknowledged contrarian sympathies, though it is not simply correct. I probably appreciate the alien world revealed in Plato's dialogues and Jane Austen's novels more than most others do. But it is because of this appreciation, not in spite of it, that I also probably appreciate our world and the possibilities of it more than most other...
...advances in the treatment of impotence, which is now seen by most therapists, in most cases, as a physiological rather than a psychological problem, rejecting the medical establishment's long-held view. The word impotence itself, like "frigidity" for women, is considered suspect in many circles; the more politically correct--or at least clinical--term is erectile dysfunction, or ED, as it is commonly abbreviated. Inspired by a 1992 National Institutes of Health Conference and landmark 1994 study on the problem, the diagnosis has been defined more broadly, from the rather strict criterion of inability to get an erection, period...
...voters won't care enough to punish them in November. Senate Republican Leader Trent Lott, for example, claims that voters in his home state of Mississippi "don't ask me about this subject." When representatives return home for summer recess and begin campaigning, we'll see if they're correct. If not, look for the Republicans to meet the fate of their Democratic predecessors who once thought voters didn't care about budget deficits either...
Opponents of privatization argue that stocks represent risky investments, and in particular, they point out that the stock market cannot continue its recent record of abnormally high returns. Well, they are correct that individual stocks have more risk than bank accounts or U.S. government bonds, and they are also correct that the stock market in unlikely to maintain its current rate of return. However, they must remember that individuals will be investing for the long haul, and in that case, the risk of losing money in a diversified portfolio of stocks looks mighty small. In fact, stocks rose...