Word: correctives
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After failing to win approval from the state Department of Revenue for estimated figures prepared last fall, city assessors have worked with a special consultant called in by the state to correct the assessment Project Director Peter Helwig said the new figures will be sent to revenue officials by December...
...went off to play substitute flutist in the pit of "Jesus Christ Superstar" where I was able to hit about 15 correct notes all evening. The night became a real winner when I realized that about half the cast and orchestra of JCS had made the callbacks and they were joking around about the dance tryouts the next morning and what a blast it was going to be. They all headed off to a party at Adams House while I went back to the Yard...
...estimated 200,000 Americans now annually undergo operations known as laminectomies to correct this ailment. The new technique, called chemonucleolysis, may eliminate the need for up to 75% of such surgery. In the hourlong procedure, the surgeon, guided by images on a fluoroscope, inserts a 6-in. needle into the gelatinous core of the disc and injects 1 to 1.5 milliliters (about one-third of a teaspoon) of chymopapain into the disc. Within seconds, the pulpy tissue dissolves, relieving pressure on the nerves...
...would have endangered its own tenuous legitimacy. Council Chairman Michael G. Colantuono '83 said recently that "If the committees cannot meet in public, I think the council should take whatever means necessary to address the situation, up to and including withdrawal of our delegates." Colantuono is, of course, correct, and he and the council's other delegates should boycott subsequent meetings of the student faculty committees if efforts at opening the sessions fail. Harvard's first student government with a shot at legitimacy needs accountability as its lifeblood...
...real bonanza, though, is in spare parts. An Air Force audit revealed that Pratt and Whitney has quietly increased the price of one part, a turbine air seal, from $16 to more than $3000, supposedly to correct an accounting error in the original price--the audit uncovered scores of such "corrections." Overall, the defense industry has, for the past two years, sustained an inflation rate of 20 percent--more than double the national average...