Word: correctives
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...police officer who introduced himself was cool and militarily correct, oblivious to the din of warcraft overhead. He addressed us in the functionary protocol of any customs officer. "We must be careful about infiltrators between the lines," he said, inspecting our passports. We attempted to respond with the same kind of proper formality, requesting permission to report on the events in Grenada. There was no shortage of those...
...more recently, the University of Florida completed a new architecture complex in 1979 and has already had to repair part of it because the correct materials were not always used in the construction, according to John McRae, chairman of the architecture department of that school...
...part of another Government action when the Environmental Protection Agency ordered it to recall 112,000 of its 1979 Chevrolet Chevettes for exceeding maximum federal standards for carbon-monoxide emissions GM said separately that it is calling back 367,700 vehicles, produced mainly during the 1983 model year, to correct defects involving brakes. In addition, a federal judge released confidential company documents reportedly indicating that GM knew that its 1980 X-model autos had brake problems before it started producing the cars. The material was assembled in connection with a Justice Department suit demanding that GM recall all 1.1 million...
...American sentiment in Iran could threaten U.S. lives there, but the U.S. government took no steps to safeguard them until it was too late. And that time-over a year and a half later-eight U.S. servicemen's lives lost in a futile attempt to save the hostages and correct the initial misjudgment...
...since Vietnam have so many American soldiers died at once. That fact alone should move us to ponder whether we were correct in sending the Marines into Lebanon in the first place. But for now, our immediate response to this latest crisis can only be to stay...