Word: corrections
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...down side, I'm afraid I correct people's English even more readily than I used to, making me a veritable Attilla the Hun of Grammar. My friends are getting a little annoyed at my role as Grammar...
...include the exquisite Hello Mary, a piece of lovelorn virtuosity whose lyrics consist entirely of one end of an overheard phone conversation: "Heard you had a son/ Don't remember his name/ That's a really nice name/ I just called/ To check and see/ If my memory's correct/ And you mean a thing to me." The song sounds so heartfelt it almost seems raw, and it's not hard to figure why. "You know," Baerwald says, "two days before I started making Bedtime Stories, I was living in a nice house in the suburbs with a woman...
Costly and frustrating as the shuttle problem is, NASA will be able to correct it with relative ease. The agency prudently grounded not only the two faulty spaceships but the third shuttle as well, until engineers are satisfied that the hydrogen fuel system is safe. This means a wholesale rescheduling of NASA's launch program and corresponding delays in realizing all of NASA's scientific and military objectives...
...economic, political and social catastrophe in East Germany." Says Richard Motzsch, an expert on East German property claims at the West German Ministry for Inter-German Affairs: "Emotions are running very high on this issue, but we must be careful not to commit new injustices while trying to correct old ones...
...should be stressed that in spite of Ehrenreich's rather condescending appraisal, Anthony was not wrong in his views. He was entirely and indisputably correct, and had the high moral ground. However, with time and the changing of the guard, past events are buried, and institutional inertia prevails. This is Anthony's curse. His inspired and devoted service will be transformed over time into "unrealistic idealism." PBH's overwhelming desire for consensus will sweep away the real issues facing it, and honest and moral people will be cast as villians. This is the sad truth that is not revealed...