Word: corrections
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...most senior Democrats on Capitol Hill favor, along with a significant portion of the U.S. public and some of the other 27 countries arrayed against Saddam Hussein in the gulf. Said Senate majority leader George Mitchell: "I don't think we should go to war. I believe that the correct policy is to continue the economic sanctions...
...global-warming theorists are correct, temperatures could rise by another 1 degrees to 4 degrees C (2 degrees to 8 degrees F) over the next half- century. Unfortunately, no one can say whether even a decade-long heat wave confirms this view or is merely a glitch. Worse, says Stephen Schneider of the National Center for Atmospheric Research: "By the time the evidence is irrefutable, it could be too late to do anything...
...continued game of chicken will end in a devastating war that Saddam will lose. There is a nagging worry in both Washington and the Middle East that Saddam's lack of familiarity with the West is leading him into a gargantuan misjudgment that nobody will try to correct. Saddam's advisers during the crisis, says a friend of the dictator, "are not sophisticated people," and in any case they "treat him like a hero. No one dares to say, 'Mr. President, we might be heading for a disaster.' Personally, I think he is misreading Bush. He believes Bush will...
...baldly confirmed that the military had shifted thousands of tanks and artillery pieces across the Urals into Soviet Asia to spare them from the destruction required under the pact. Economist V. Litov, an international-affairs specialist, wrote in the conservative daily Sovietskaya Rossiya that the moves were needed to "correct the errors" of Shevardnadze's diplomacy. Litov called on legislators to reject the conventional-arms treaty. But Soviet diplomats were aghast. Said the liberal paper Moscow News: "The situation has given rise to understandable fears in the West about who is in charge...
Assistant Professor of Medicine Steven L. Rabinowe, who leads an endocrinology tutorial, says that tutors act as "curbstones" in discussions to keep students thinking between correct lines. "Students generate their own discussion. We are also here to correct mistaken assumptions," he says...