Word: correctives
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...American people ... I appeal for it to cease. I do so as an American citizen." Those of Giamatti's countrymen who love baseball found themselves massively unedified by the collision of venalities that brought on the strike. Despite the sympathy the players may have attracted (they are correct in arguing that the owners are now simply trying to rob them of benefits that they had earlier won), most fans judged it preposterous that men with an average salary of almost $180,000 should march out singing, "I dreamed I saw Joe Hill last night ..." Boston Globe Columnist Mike Barnicle...
...that has never kept an eager group of Teamster leaders from coveting the office. For one thing, the power, pay and perks are the best in the entire labor movement. And if the latest in a long series of congressional reports of the Teamsters is correct, the cash skimmed illegally off the tables of Las Vegas casinos can also sweeten a Teamster president...
Some consumers are undoubtedly abandoning their local banks because of what they consider to be rude or indifferent service or hard-to-correct computer errors. In California, class-action suits have been filed against six leading banks on the grounds that they are gouging customers by charging up to $10 for handling checks drawn on insufficient funds. Some claim that the service actually costs the banks less than $1 a check. Many bank customers have learned that the old financial catchall, "The check is in the mail," has been replaced by a new one, "The computer lost your deposit...
...person best qualified for the position. Nevertheless, the candidate has informed us that he cannot accept our occer for reasons unrelated to the recent controversy. Thus. the relevant issue for Harvard now is not whether his behavior was morally right or wrong or whether his economic views were correct or not but whether such economic, political, and moral judgments are ever appropriate matters to consider in making an appointment of this kind... In principle, almost all universities have come to oppose efforts to apply such...judgments to decisions involving academic employment... To put the point affirmatively, academic institutions are dedicated...
...other graduating seniors anticipate summers abroad, five-figure salaries, and advanced degrees, John Timothy Leary doesn't expect to go very far. Depending upon the mercy of the Massachusetts judicial system, he may have no choice. John faces up to two months in the Billerica state correctional facility for distributing peace leaflets at Cambridge's Draper Laboratory (a leading center for research and development of nuclear missile accuracy systems). It's doubtful, however, that time in prison will "correct" John's activism. Many previous brushes with authority have proven him to be a shameless agitator...