Word: correctives
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...NOTEBOOK: Captain Dave Randall, who had been using poles of different size and shape, finally got the correct pole and vaulted to his best height this season (14 ft. 6 in.)... Coach Frank Haggerty was unable to attend because he hurt his ankle while leaving the Brown-Harvard hockey game. In the emulate-the-coach department. Haggerty's charges--the middle--distance runners--Serve Ezeji-Okoye, Scott Murrer and Bennet Mulin all injured themselves prior to the meet...
Tosteson said last night that because Covino's and Gissen letters were sistent with the golden rule policy. it is very understandable that the MMS could find their actions less than totally correct...
...could only correct them and sit back and try not to get too excited as Olson added another goal. Michael Watson popped in two more and it went on and on until the Harvard fans were singing "Gooooodbahhh Huskies!" and Harvard had won the opening round, 10-2. Not since the Crimson rapped the Huskies five year before, 9-0, had a Beanpot crowd witnessed such devastation. Not since the year before, when Cinderella Northeastern won its first Beanpot, had they been so surprised...
SEGREGATION. In defending his decision to revoke an Internal Revenue Service rule barring tax-exempt status for racially segregated schools, Reagan claimed that "what we were trying to correct was a procedure that we thought had no basis in law." The thought was wrong. The U.S. Supreme Court in 1971 upheld a lower court ruling that the IRS had not exceeded its legal authority in prohibiting exemptions to schools that practice discrimination...
...fundamental business of the country is on a sound and prosperous basis," President Hoover said the day after Black Thursday. He was expressing the standard and perfectly correct view that Wall Street is quite different from the U.S. economy as a whole. But the U.S. economy suddenly seemed just as stricken as Wall Street. The index of manufacturing production sank from 127 in June 1929 to 97 a year later. Farm income dropped even more. In 1930, 26,355 business firms went bankrupt. Hoover kept saying it was a temporary problem...