Word: correctives
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Dean Hazel, 28, a General Motors worker who has been a leader in the antitax movement, claims that the income tax is unconstitutional (incorrect) and that the Flint IRS office lacks the manpower to prosecute so many tax evaders at once (correct, as even the IRS concedes). But the agency has sent warnings to 1,100 people claiming unusual numbers of dependents. "Terror tactics," scoffs Hazel. "The IRS depends on fear." (Correct.) As of last week almost one-half of those receiving letters had asked their employers to resume the proper withholding...
...this may have been intellectually and ideologically correct--certainly it was hard for these veterans to accept King's notion of interracial redemption through suffering. But whatever its validity, it succeeded in destroying the organization and helped to provoke a backlash that curbed the effectiveness of the civil rights movement. Carson's account shows the folly of rhetoric when it is unaccompanied by the work of organizing, of creating support. "During the final year of SNCC's existence, staff members became increasingly dogmatic and isolated. Formerly controversial ideas became cant and posturing. SNCC's demise as a national organization merely...
...Reagan tried to work it out himself on a scratch pad and came out with 60 miles; the Bureau of Engraving and Printing provided the correct figure...
...conclusion, to correct Mr. Bayliss's quote of me, between Harvard and M.I.T., the two buttocks of our city, there is a hemorrhoid called Lesley College, and it is growing more irritating and painful with each passing year. Glenn Koocher...
Tell Abe Rosenthal.' I thought that a responsible editor of a responsible paper would want to correct the record." Rosenthal readily authorized the corrective story. Korry, in turn, says that he then provided the information for the Kissinger project that Hersh wanted. Says Korry: "I've always believed in justice...