Word: corrective
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Earlier summits had produced grand, and unfulfilled, plans for encouraging economic growth. But at Bonn the leaders moved toward specific solutions for individual difficulties. In essence, each participant would attempt to correct problems that are hurting trading partners and retarding recovery. As one Italian diplomat quipped: "It's a bit like being sent home by the teacher with a homework assignment in your weakest subject...
George Carlin likes to "get his strokes" at his work, and he's been fortunate and deserving. He's absolutely correct when he says he was working in "a safer era," but perhaps it is too safe for his own good...
...steering wheel is yanked sharply to one side, then released and allowed to swing free while the driver keeps his foot on the gas, the wheel oscillates back and forth. This characteristic was not a "defect" but was "undesirable," said the Canadian engineers, and they feel Chrysler should correct it. Added Peter Keith, head of the ministry's advanced-engineering department: "While this oscillating is significant to engineers, there is no way that we could prove it related to the safety of the cars...
...Norman Barry, represent-big 111 patrolmen who had passed the 1973 exam but lost out on promotion through imposition of the quota, argued that his clients deserved promotion before any new exam was ordered. Said he: "My people are victims of Judge Marshall's command that the city correct its previous discrimination by imposing quotas. They are Bakke. They are victims of reverse discrimination brought about by court order and a rigid quota." The comparison seemed somewhat stretched, but Judge Marshall nevertheless delayed his order abolishing the 1973 list of candidates for promotion and allowed Barry time to submit...
...fully to understand. The Ml growth rate swung crazily from almost 14% in one month to nearly zero in another, and the gyrations confused and alarmed moneymen. Miller aims for more stability by not pushing down wildly on the pedal or slamming on the brakes in one month to correct the previous month's error...