Word: corrections
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that Iraq was about to invade Kuwait. George Bush refused to believe it, preferring to accept the personal assurances he had received from Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and other Middle Eastern leaders. In recent years, the agency has produced several full-dress estimates on Yugoslavia. Though the scenarios were correct, says a U.S. official, "they seem to have had almost no impact on policy" -- probably because they offered only unwelcome news. Intelligence can be an important tool for decision makers, but no more than that. It is up to the politicians to make wise policy...
...protect the bases in their districts. Then, finally, the commissioners listened to Defense Secretary Les Aspin and General Colin Powell, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who advised them firmly to stick to the Pentagon's plan for closures. "I believe my original recommendations are still correct," said Aspin...
...1990s she had come to seem like a relic of an earlier age to the younger women lawyers who now make up 24% of the profession (vs. 3% in the early 1970s), lovely to contemplate on a shelf somewhere but not as politically correct or savvy as the later models. Recently, Ginsburg and her friend Kathleen Peratis, a Manhattan lawyer, commiserated about "how we both were feeling like dinosaurs" when set beside today's feminist avant garde, who didn't experience sex discrimination in full bloom...
...verge of overthrowing apartheid and their government, and now you say we must work with these people." That is perfectly reasonable. But we discussed the matter at length, and at the end of that meeting they accepted that the strategy of a government of national unity is a correct...
...demonology of conservative politics, Hackney has become a personification of political correctness, that most nettlesome of campus issues. As president of the University of Pennsylvania since 1981, Hackney has handled a series of incidents that critics say reflect on his judgment and temperament. Conservative standard-bearer Patrick Buchanan puts it bluntly: "He is a politically correct leftist like Lani Guinier -- a virtuecrat, out of touch with Middle America...