Word: correctives
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...researcher. Unlike most, she is an intellectual pariah. "Her position on Hodgkin's disease was, for the five years of this book. a minority one. She simply worked on a hunch. albeit one in accord with many observations. but still just a vision. But while she has been proved correct in some ways, most scientists do not put themselves out on a limb as Dr. Brito did. Brito bravely defends her attitude. "To be frightened of making mistakes is to be in prison. But no matter how appealing, she is an anomaly in a world where most scientists (especially young...
...self-flagellating rhetoric--rhetoric which will be of little use to the Poles when the armed struggle begins. When the tanks roll into Poland it will be a case of clear, naked Soviet aggression and the world's attention should be focused there. The second opinion is absolutely correct in calling the majority opinion a "grave abdication of responsibility." We can and should help the Polish people resist the Red Army...
...Soviet imperialism without ending our support for repressive regimes in El Salvador and South Africa. Our hands, too, are dirty. But to abandon Poland's workers while we redirect our policy towards the Third World would be a grave abdication of responsibility. We must both oppose Soviet aggression and correct our errors...
...boyfriend and their seven-month-old daughter: "I had a bad caesarean last time, bad infections. I have to wait a few years for another child." Pro-lifers argue that many unwanted pregnancies are due to carelessness and irresponsibility, that abortion has come to be an expedient way to correct a mistake. Claris, who lives with her mechanic husband in Brooklyn, was on the Pill but failed to renew her prescription when it ran out. "I didn't get around to it," she says...
James Braswell, ETS spokesman, said this week that Denenberg's answer is also correct, but added that ETS would not revise the scores again...