Word: correctives
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Whittlesey, who is something called Reagan's new assistant for public liaison, says she is "appalled" by television news and thinks "the media have tried to portray what we think are the bad guys, the Communists, as Robin Hoods." Her office predicts that Reagan will be proved as correct as Churchill was in the 1930s, and his critics as discredited as Neville Chamberlain. To make such an analogy valid, the country's survival would have to be equally at risk, and the public would have to be convinced that Reagan has not inflated, wrongly identified and sometimes inflamed...
...finally become convinced. Not only can we use it, but we know how to play the game. It's absolutely appalling to me that people now would say to us, 'Don't do it.' " Agrees T. Willard Fair, president of the Urban League of Miami: "The timing is absolutely correct. We have to run and run and run until we win. If black folks waited until a bunch of white folks were ready, we would never...
...those days, stockholders were entitled to little information, the public to even less: businessmen had not progressed much beyond William Henry Vanderbilt's "the public be damned" attitude. To get the access it wanted, FORTUNE agreed to show corporations articles in advance, to let them comment and correct errors but not to edit or dictate changes. About 15 years ago, FORTUNE abandoned the practice that New England Business is reviving. "I wish 'em well, but they're opening the doors to problems," says Lewis Young, the editor in chief of Business Week...
...that interpretation is correct, it would point to further reductions in unemployment at least in the short term, because the recovery seems to be putting on new muscle almost daily. A sampling from last week's news reports: factory orders in June rose 3.9%, the largest one-month increase in three years; retail-store chains in July posted heartening sales increases over a year earlier (9.8% for Sears, 11.8% for K Mart); the Big Three automakers boosted sales in the last ten days of July by 37.1% over the depressed figures...
...Psychologist Elizabeth Spelke of the University of Pennsylvania showed four-month-old babies a pair of films in which two toys bounced around on a surface in different ways, each with a corresponding sound track. She then played one sound track, and the babies were able to match the correct film to its sound. From the babies' "highly differentiated ability" to decide what goes with what, Spelke went on to deduce that children are born with an innate ability to divide their experiences into categories. Says she: "Obviously, in order to make sense of anything that...