Word: corrective
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...seemed so darned healthy. Joggers and bicyclists clogged the pathways. Exercise spas threw open their glass doors and mirrored chambers. Folks didn't just watch their weight, they also enrolled in diet movements, diet 12-step programs and diet franchises complete with celebrity TV endorsements and calorically correct prepackaged snacks, meals and desserts. Even the Christmas turkey seemed somehow leaner...
...Supreme Court curtly dismissed his final appeal by a vote of 6 to 3, Justice John Paul Stevens wrote a sharp / dissent. "I find this course of events deeply troubling," he wrote. Stevens said that if the prosecutor's arguments at the trial of Jacobs' sister were correct, "then Jacobs is innocent of capital murder." Said George Kendall of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund: "The state should have reopened his case and, at the least, vacated his death sentence, if not his conviction." Even the Vatican denounced the execution as "not only incredible, but monstrous and absurd...
...vocal" complaints, she is referring to The Crimson article of last year. I would like to correct her account, being the member interviewed in that article. Contrary to what Levine stated, there was no objection to a Christmas tree being in the dining hall...
According to several passengers' accounts, the hijackers appeared to be in their early 20s; they were beardless and had closely cropped hair. "They were polite, correct," said one woman. "But they had the determined air of cold- blooded killers." Said another passenger: "They seemed excited, very euphoric. They told us that they would give a lesson to the French and to the world, that they would show what they were capable of." The hijackers made certain everyone got the point by brandishing Kalashnikov assault rifles, Uzi pistols, homemade hand grenades and two packs of dynamite. Later they placed...
...arguments raised in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences against the Corporation's correct but difficult decision to continue participation in ROTC the analogy to discrimination against Jews and to the German faculties' failure to stand up against the expulsion of Jews by the Nazis from their universities seems to me the most moving but also the most inapposite...