Word: correcting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...RESPECT READING PERIOD--Every reading period I, along with many Harvard students, are swamped with assignments given by professors in violation of University policy. The U.C. needs to lobby the administration to correct this...
While I am pleased that the Crimson has brought attention to the Student Disability Resource Center (SDRC) and the good work they do (Dec. 1), I am obliged to correct some errors of fact as well as some impressions that might be misleading to your readers. I did not say, "We can't always do what [disabled] students want [when] their expectations exceed what is required by law." I said that we try to exceed the minimum requirements of the law in providing services and assistance to students with disabilities...
...closing, I illustrate a danger of spoken communication by noting the mention of "drag-and-dictate" technology. The voice-activated computer system is called Dragon Dictate! I think I like your name better, but let's be correct. --Thurston Smith, Senior Associate Registrar
...Louise, who spent their evenings worrying over the Health Security Act), along with an amalgam of industry groups, is marshalling its forces once again, as if some socialist, Swedish-type system were about to land on these shores. It's girding to defeat several pending bills that would correct some marketplace excesses. A provision in one bill would ensure that a woman could have direct access to an obstetrician (a specialist, after all) throughout her pregnancy. Another would allow emergency care anytime a "prudent layperson" would consider it appropriate. Another would remove bonuses for doctors who restrict care...
...Instead, the T.F. just circled the word 'mankind' and wrote a "weird cryptic comment that said, 'Use humanity. Though it seems like P.C. mumbo jumbo, they tell me I have to say that.'" Upon checking the handbook for teaching fellows, Shrier discovered that the T.F. was indeed supposed to correct gender-biased language. Having the correction being the only comment on the entire paper, however, might be taking things a little...