Word: correctives
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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They are currently in the process of constructing the cell and he predicts that--provided his calculations are correct--they may attain the necessary pressure within a year...
...deadly weapon, which then carried a maximum sentence of eight years. In four weeks Streleski, 47, will have served his full term, with time off for good behavior, and will probably have to be released, though he has told reporters that he still believes his murderous act was "morally correct" and is "noncommittal" about whether he will kill again. The Streleski controversy follows by just a few weeks the mandatory release from a California prison of Dan White, who served only five years and one month for manslaughter after killing San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk...
...from Reagan that naval gunfire is supposed only to protect the Marines' encampment and other U.S. positions around Beirut, like the embassy compound, by silencing artillery and missile batteries that have fired on them. Less than three hours later, Lehman issued a six-line statement asserting that "the correct policy is ... as the President has stated...
Still, the main targets are journalistic: Columnist Jack Anderson, who according to Powell never proved his claim that Carter associates conspired with Fugitive Swindler Robert Vesco; ABC News, which Powell says refused to correct a false report that the FBI was wiretapping U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young; Syndicated Columnist Joseph Kraft, who is described as having sent back White House tickets to a Kennedy Center gala because the seats were in the balcony; the New York Times, which Powell claims had to "screen" its staff to be sure no drug users were assigned to investigate charges that White House Chief...
...interesting, although somewhat inverted, example of governmental buck passing occured last fall when President Reagan took personal responsibility for the bombing of the Marine barracks in Beirut and thus saved any individual officers from disciplinary action. The move was politically correct, but wrong. The officers who based troops in a poorly guarded, multi-story building in the middle of a war should have been hauled out in their underwear. Of course it is difficult to protect troops from determined terrorism--suicide attacks in particular--but that's their job: they made a mistake and should be held accountable...