Word: correctives
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fiscal 1982 deficit of no more than $42.5 billion, projections last week by the Congressional Budget Office put the figure at closer to $60 billion. The Data Resources economic forecasting firm expects a budget shortfall of as much as $66 billion in the year ahead. If those figures are correct, Washington next year will have to borrow perhaps $25 billion more than it had originally expected...
...lower incidence of cervical cancer have been either inadequate or flawed. Review of one study, for example, revealed that about half the women had incorrectly answered questions regarding whether their husbands were circumcised. A sizable portion of the men were also wrong in assessing their condition. Circumcision will correct two conditions that occur in a fraction of uncircumcised children: phimosis, a narrowing of the foreskin hampering erection and urination; and paraphimosis, retraction of the foreskin resulting in a cutoff of blood to the end of the penis...
...expects to lose $11 million this year. Said Publisher Robert Hunt: "We went all out to produce the liveliest, most interesting editorial package we could and, damn it, it didn't work. It was a bad marketing plan. We made a mistake and we're going to correct it." He said a year's experience was a "fair test," but many staffers disagreed. Said Edwin Diamond, former associate editor of Tonight: "Management did not give it enough time. 60 Minutes was given ten years to find its audience...
History shows that the Churchills, the Roosevelts, the Hitlers and the Stalins made almost as many mistakes as correct decisions in their designs, both good and evil. The call to action swept their people along. The polls show grave doubts among the American people about where Ronald Reagan is taking us. That uncertainty was expressed colorfully by Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker when he described Reaganomics as a "riverboat gamble." But there is an irresistible appeal to fall in behind a man when he promises adventure, even when one may not agree with him. Tennyson said it well. "I myself...
Before such a disaster strikes, the medical group urges setting international standards for prescription, distribution and advertising. At the third annual National Conference on Antibiotic Review being held this week in Washington, D.C., 300 participants, doctors, nurses and pharmacists, are grappling with practical ways to correct overuse in hospitals. Two possibilities: setting up a review of how antibiotics are used and requiring lab tests to justify renewed prescriptions...