Word: corrections
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Certainly at the beginning there was no anticipation of that. That is correct...
...years U.S. business has grumbled about the quality of the nation's high school graduates. They can't make correct change. They can't write a business letter. They have no sense of the work ethic. They also cost a lot of extra money: American firms spend $250 million annually just to teach workers the three Rs. "Because of the failure of our education system to produce graduates who can work at world-class levels, we have a national economic problem on our hands," says William Kolberg, president of the National Alliance of Business, a Washington-based education and policy...
...After thinking for some months about the problem [an error in his explanation of universal structure] I think I've found the correct idea," Layzer says. "It's like trying to put together a lot of pieces that don't fit together, but if you believe that everything will fit into a picture, then the more pieces you have, the better...
Perhaps Mr. Katz believes that if the war is immoral and "so many lives are at stake," it would be an appropriately "heroic" act for U.S. soldiers to mutiny at the front. Perhaps this is correct. But can we set this as our minimum standard of resistance, even if it is within the power of every soldier to resist in this...
Administrators and concentrators alike say that last week's appointment of Duke's Henry Louis Gates, Jr.--one of the nation's preeminent Afro-Am scholars--may herald a new era for the department. If the administration's optimistic assessment is correct, Gates stands at the core of a new generation of Afro-Am scholars, many of whom they hope to attract to Harvard...