Word: correctives
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Twenty-five years after Sputnik, Americans once again fear the U.S. is losing its edge, and they believe primary and secondary education are to blame. According to a recent New York Timespoll, seven out of eight Americans advocate a back-to-basics program to correct the problem. President Reagan also favors this emphasis on fundamentals. Yet, a close analysis of student performance reveals that proponents of the back-to-basics program are neglectful of the facts; such an educational program will not help to maintain the competitive edge...
Conway said that if phones were not installed by the end of the week, he would consider asking New England Telephone to correct it by a message service explaining the circumstances...
...claimed that they had already offered deep concessions to Continental. Pilots, they said, had agreed to give up $60 million in wages, flight attendants $40 million. Said Pilot Paul Eckel: "Sure we have an inflated wage structure, but there's a right way and a wrong way to correct that...
...reform was designed to correct a fundamental flaw in the system: the Government had set no limit on what it would pay for hospital care. "The incentive was perverse," explains Carolyne Davis, head of the Health Care Financing Administration, which runs Medicare. "The more hospitals spent, the more we paid." The new regulations place a ceiling on the amount a hospital receives for treating each ailment. Upon admission, Medicare patients will be assigned to one of 467 newly de fined "diagnosis-related groups," or DRGs, home on the nature of their jeopardizing Each DRG carries a specific rate of reimbursement...
...readings proved correct five minutes later, when I careened past a Trailways bus. Those who go Big Red just can't compete with the Crimson...