Word: correctives
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Union Carbide, which disclosed late last month that leaks at its Institute, W. Va., plant had resulted in a revision of procedures there, has conceded that some of the information coming out of India is correct. The company has acknowledged that a backup storage tank that was supposed to be empty at the time of the accident had in fact been partly filled. But company officials declined to comment in detail on other findings until they could study the results of their investigation...
...Anatoly Dobrynin, the longtime Ambassador in Washington, do not necessarily convey accurate information. Americans would be astonished if they knew how little Gromyko, who has lived in America and visits regularly, knows about day-to-day life in their country. One of Dobrynin's important functions has been to correct the limited and distorted picture Soviet rulers have of America. On a visit to New York, Gromyko, spooning honey into his tea, remarked that American bees were turning out a distinctly poor product...
...from sure his evaluation was correct, and I said as much to Fedorenko, who agreed: "One can hardly trust the Arabs. There is no limit to their stupidity. Let's wait and see what Moscow says...
...team is repeating its unexpected loss on the rink last Monday to Boston University: Harvard's current total (five correct answers) places it behind Boston College and Boston University, each with six correct answers, according to Mark M. Bergeron, assistant director of sports information at Harvard...
DEAN SPENCE made the correct decision last week to accede to a Navy demand that Harvard sign an agreement with Navy ROTC. The controversy centered around the lack of a written agreement between Harvard and NROTC concerning the status of the three dozen or so Harvard undergraduates who are part of the MIT NROTC detachment. The "new" agreement is not really new at all; it is merely a recognition of the cross-town arrangement which began in 1976, and an acknowledgement that those ROTC courses recognized as credit-worthy by MIT should be accorded the same treatment by Harvard...