Word: correctives
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...written three more books by now." Chicago Author William Brashler (The Bingo Long Traveling All Stars and Motor Kings), 33, switched on when his exhausted electric portable began throwing keys across the room. Says Brashler of his $8,400 IBM Displaywriter: "It takes the drudgery out of writing. I correct a mistake on the screen in a second, and the printer retypes the page in three seconds. No more retyping the whole page by hand...
...correct this situation, Charles and Diana raised eyebrows by registering a list of wedding gifts at the General Trading Company, a tony London emporium with a royal warrant to supply fancy goods. Gift givers who are bored by silver and feel that the Germans have pretty well swept the kitchen-equipment field can drop by the store and have a look at the list of some 300 desired items, which include omelette and sauté pans, salt and pepper mills in natural wood, dishes for casseroles and soufflés, 24 champagne glasses, 18 highball tumblers, a dark green tablecloth...
...believe that small amounts of alcohol are harmless and relaxing, and they allow pregnant patients a glass of wine with the evening meal. Dr. Joe Simpson of Northwestern University Medical School in Chicago worries about instilling guilt in women who take an occasional drink: "Even if the studies are correct, it need not follow that every woman who had a drink and miscarried or had a baby with a problem did so because of alcohol. But women are going to assume it was the one drink they took while pregnant." Even so, most experts acknowledge that the warning is justified...
...pioneering decisions on school integration, procedural rights for criminal defendants, and the "one man, one vote" principle of legislative apportionment. Moreover, the Burger court has broken some new ground. It was unanimous in restricting Nixon's Watergate-era claims of Executive privilege. It has upheld affirmative action to correct past racial inequities in a moderate way. It has advanced women's rights against discrimination in employment to a notable degree...
...highly doubtful that an adequately correct list can be made, since we do not know exactly whether the persons included in certain lists as missing are really dead or have disappeared. For example, a few months ago, a so-called missing person re-entered the Argentine Republic, naturally to continue fighting against...