Word: correcting
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Obama Administration has hastened to correct the impression that Biden's comments represented a U.S. nod and wink to an Israeli air strike. The Vice President had said that while the U.S. believes that military action against Iran would serve neither American nor Israeli interests, Israel is a sovereign nation, and if it felt threatened by Iran, it would be "entitled to" launch an attack on the Islamic Republic "whether we agree or not." President Obama reiterated in Moscow on Monday that he opposes military action against Iran and instead wants a diplomatic solution to the nuclear standoff. But Prime...
...Still, all the families were “native Dutch,” the politically correct term for “white” in this country...
...mistake. Isn't that letting them off the hook? No. They're good people because they really are suffering. And they don't know what to do. They want love in their life, [and] they feel that there's something radically wrong and they don't know how to correct...
...Stock-market valuation is an inexact science, and it offers no guarantee that the market will not correct sharply after its big run-up. Indeed, even Cooperman expects the months ahead to be characterized by a trading-range market, with a lot of backing and filling. But in fits and starts, he believes, it will edge higher over the next 12 months. Perhaps it's a mark of these unusual times that such a modestly bullish forecast felt bold; it's another such mark that professional investors are just as skittish about the market as the little...
...this not been Russia, Glazunov might have defended his work. Instead, he complemented Putin on his eye for detail and said he would correct the mistake. Under the current climate, he was probably right to - when it comes to Russian art, going up against the authorities has its consequences...