Word: correctives
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Maria Mantzaris, a tenant in a building owned by the city's largest landlord and most ambitious converter Harlow Properties, testified at a city council hearing that she paid only $92 a month rent because Harlow Properties refuses to correct the building's numerous safety and sanitary code violations. Harlow Properties has scheduled the building in which she lives for conversion...
...join the Gaullist leader, who then was the country's Premier, in a concerted public assault on the left. Giscard reasoned that attacks would only weld the Communists and Socialists together; if left alone, he calculated, the parties would be torn apart by internal contradictions. His analysis is proving correct...
...events could conceivably reach a wider Radcliffe audience than just the gay group alone. That by itself would make the grant proper, although plans to use the money for purely social, internal purposes would not warrant the funding. Besides the immediate uses of the money, however, the decision was correct because the group does represent a group of Radcliffe women with special interests, just as an organization like the black women's association does, and should be given the same recognition and legitimacy as other women's groups. To do otherwise would be to ostracize lesbians from the Radcliffe community...
...year old Americans in 1969 trying to sound like Lenin in Zurich in 1917. Skillfully interwoven with the story of Hunter McNatt's search for his son are also the stories of people who run across one or the other along the way, and their speech is wonderfully correct. Vinny and Dom, his Boston cops, are a little too pat ("Pahk the cah in Hahvahd Yahd") but they still sound, well, like Boston cops. Sayles also captures the peculiar accents of Appalachia, especially the banter of men who work hard, as when one tells another, "You're so ugly...
...canal, a clause that seemed alarmingly vague to many people. When it became apparent that this concern was about to sink the treaty, Panama's head of state, General Omar Torrijos Herrera, went to Washington, and he and Carter issued a joint "statement of understanding." The "correct interpretation," they said, is that each country shall defend the canal against any aggressive act or other threat to its neutrality and shall make sure that it remains "open, secure and accessible." But the U.S. has no "right of intervention in the internal affairs of Panama." This seems to lead...