Word: correcting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Yerma's incessant railing against her 'fate" drives her to increasingly desperate measures as she attempts to understand and correct what is wrong inside her womb and her "blood." Isolated with her despair, she becomes alienated from her husband and from the rest of her village until her unbearable pain explodes in a climax of sexual and emotional anguish, violence and murder...
...jury. Juror Stephen Colwell said he felt "greatly relieved" when the verdict was reduced to manslaughter ? a choice he and his 11 colleagues were never given. And most Americans, it seems, agree. According to an ABC News survey ? the first post-trial poll ? 56 percent felt manslaughter was the correct verdict, with only 35 percent opposed...
...barbershops and shopping malls all week. Mighty IBM announced that its shares were so attractive, it would spend as much as $3.5 billion buying them back. From her perch as co-chair of the investment-policy committee at venerable Goldman Sachs, Abby Joseph Cohen, the most consistently bullish--and correct--market forecaster of the 1990s, declared the sell-off a buying opportunity and promptly raised from 60% to 65% her portfolio's allocation to stocks...
...began a tumultuous week as Hong Kong's tail wagged the U.S. dog down 550 points--and then the dog barked back with 330 points up before returning to the kennel. Once again, the public deserved praise for its ability to put Hong Kong's woes in the correct, minuscule perspective, even as Wall Street bigwigs deserved scorn for trying to incite panic over a country that represents an infinitesimal amount of our commerce...
...ugliest part of democracy ? the wedge issue. There will be no gun locks for children, marijuana for cancer patients or gay rights for workers in Washington State, all because the majority ? who wouldn't have to pay an extra cent ? didn't judge any of these proposals morally correct...