Word: correctives
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...taken 350 years for the Roman Catholic Church to acknowledge that Galileo was correct in asserting that the sun, not the earth, is the center of the universe...
...none. It prints what it is given. If some important national secret is betrayed in the pages of a great newspaper, as has often happened, it is nonsense to protest that the editors and reporters have no patriotism, no decency, that this is treason. The charges may be correct, but you have arraigned the wrong defendants. The failure of patriotism, the betrayal of decency, the treachery are real enough. But these are the trespasses of the public official who, having been trusted with the secret, could not keep...
Armed with their advice, the auto industry set out to drive responsibility down through the ranks, allowing employees to have more say in what they are doing. In Japan, manufacturing defects are caught by workers, who are encouraged to stop the line and correct them. The idea is to make a car ready to ship and sell by the time it rolls out of the plant and to make every worker an inspector...
Regarding the article on Latin American Studies at Harvard, in your edition of March 3, I found more misleading implications that I have time to correct. But there is one confusion I do want to clarify. A student is quoted to the effect that the History Department does not offer enough courses on Latin America for him to choose it as his major area. If this is what he said, he is wrong. A student in History needs two and a half courses in an area to count it as his or her major. Between 1981 and 1985, when...
Pope John Paul II moves to correct a 350-year-old wrong...