Word: correctives
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Washington. Speaking to a contact on then-President Jimmy Carter's National Security Council, House asked him if Vance was travelling to the Middle East to personally invite Begin and Sadat to a summit in the United States. She recalls his shocked response, saying. "I knew my hunch was correct when he refused to either confirm or deny it." Though she had no confirmed sources for the story, she was able to write a paragraph about it for the Journal's, "Washington Wire" section. The Jerusalem Post announced the news that weekend, and by Monday, all the papers and wires...
...breed of Black into the civil rights movement, turning it into an all Black revolution. Malcolm X was referring to the tendency of King's rearguard demonstrators, and Black spectators along the route of the Birmingham marchers to attack the police by using violence themselves. Malcolm X was more correct in his version of what happened in Birmingham. His sequence is the framework one needs to explain what happened there with respect to white and Black reaction and to establish the casual connection between Birmingham and the dramatic outpouring of people at the March on Washington. The traditional King supporters...
When Levine stops, it is generally to correct errors, polish details or discuss fine points of interpretation. There is little philosophizing about music, something musicians hate. "You can make even a bigger deal out of that," he will say to a reticent oboist, encouraging him to play a phrase more grandly. "Bass drum, diminuendo, a little less all the way through," he will call out to an enthusiastic percussionist. Levine rarely raises his voice, preferring to maintain a relaxed but efficient atmosphere. "He's cool," says Trumpeter Melvyn Broiles. "I've never seen him flip out. He doesn...
...want our way of life jeopardized by risky foreign policies, economic experimentation and fiscal destabilization. Thus the job specifications for the Oval Office do not call for the election of the perfect administrator. The position can be filled only by someone who can pull us together to correct a bad situation...
...routine work mean that human thinking will shift to a higher level? Will IQs rise? Will there be more intellectuals? The computer may make a lot of learning as unnecessary as memorizing the multiplication tables. But if a dictionary stored in the computer's memory can easily correct any spelling mistakes, what is the point of learning to spell? And if the mind is freed from intellectual routine, will it race off in pursuit of important ideas or lazily spend its time on more video games...