Word: corrective
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tell the good workmen from the many others who produce most of the grumbling about warping walls, quick-cracking concrete and misconnected electric lines. A homeowner can weed out the worst contractors by consulting his local Better Business Bureau, and the BBB can sometimes prod a contractor to correct faulty work. Most of the time, however, the harried homeowner must trust to hunch-and luck...
...despite a few tedious stretches necessarily involved in transversing the macromiles, Apollo 11 carried off a splendid show. Despite the billions it cost, it was worth it. As even the usually jaded Walter Cronkite kept repeating Sunday afternoon, "Oh, boy!" Yes, Walter, for once we agree. Oh, boy! is correct...
...atmosphere), they estimate that meteors have deposited 450 billion tons of iron, 30 billion tons of nickel, 10 billion tons of phosphorous, 9 billion tons of carbon, 6 billion tons of copper and 3 billion tons of cobalt on or near the lunar surface. If their figures are correct, the meteor fall would also have contributed 300 billion tons of carbonaceous chondrites, containing about 30 billion tons of water chemically locked in crystals with other compounds...
...only way for a control policy to get quick results now would be to begin with a freeze on all wages and prices. But Administration officials believe that the freeze would soon melt as policymakers found themselves forced to make exceptions to correct inequities...
...effort of white liberal evangelism. Started by some Harvard CRIMSON editors and funded by a lot of liberal people and their organizations in the Northeast, it was an attempt to expose what was wrong with what true with the understood result that the governmental system would then have to correct itself...