Word: corrective
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...think it's worth noting that if we had used the games metaphor of checkers instead of dominoes we would have come out in a much more correct position, saving 50,000 American lives and untold Vietnamese lives. There's an old adage in international politics that the enemy of my enemy is my friend: that has been known for centuries and it is rather sad that we got our games wrong...
State Rep. Robert B. Ambler said yesterday it was useless for the House to try to correct the bill because he had been assured the Senate Ways and Means Committee would do it. The committee has scheduled immediate meetings to look over the bill. The final bill would accomplish what the House had recommended, Ambler said...
...would like to correct a statement printed in Brenda Russell's (Feb. 5) article on the Women's College Conference, and comment on the general nature of the conference. Eight schools, primarily the Seven Sisters, were represented at the conference held at Smith College on Feb. 3rd. Twelve workshops addressed a variety of issues ranging from financing student activities, to the E.R.A., to women's studies, to security and violence on women's college campuses. In the workshop on security and violence, which I attended, one of the topics discussed was the special problems of security at Radcliffe...
...lead in promoting the designs of such emerging ready-to-wear pacesetters as Calvin Klein and France's Andre Courreges and Pierre Cardin. Says a Bonwit's buyer, recalling the glory days: "We were trying to be a store that would tell the customer what is correct and beautiful...
Last week a second Carnegie Commission issued another report to correct the system's "fundamental flaws." Though it has some good ideas, Carnegie II is, like Carnegie I, excessively timid, short on vision and long on words-particularly long words...