Word: correctives
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most popular programs are used by individuals to improve the speed and quality of their work. Example: text-editing software, which allows someone to write and correct manuscripts without needless retyping. Products for business uses, like accounting software, are second in sales, followed by entertainment and education programs. While hardware manufacturers such as IBM, Tandy and Apple are the biggest sellers of applications software, Microsoft, Lotus Development of Cambridge, Mass., and other independent companies are increasing their share of the market...
...have to work hard to correct this...
Parker: I think, by and large, Bok's diagnosis is absolutely correct...
Parker: I think to call Ibriham's point of view anti-intellectual is just utterly wrong. It seems to me that his argument is one based on the sociology of knowledge, which is a well-recognized and, I think, correct point of view that knowledge is rooted in experience. I don't see the issue as communication. I see it more as one of quality and relevance. But I don't think it's inevitable that including non-whites and women on the faculty will necessarily make for diversity in the point of view. But I think that it probably...
...been alarmed by the pipeline, arguing that it would make Western Europe dependent on a potential adversary for a significant part of its energy supplies and provide the Soviet Union with a bonanza in hard currency with which to finance a continued arms buildup. In this he was correct, and as NATO commander I had opposed construction of the pipeline. But President Carter had chosen not to oppose it, and the Europeans had made massive financial and political investments in it. It was, quite simply, too late...