Word: correctives
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Times article, surely the longest correction ever published in the prestigious paper, was commissioned by Executive Editor A.M. Rosenthal at Hersh's suggestion. Says Rosenthal: "Sy called me and said that he had come across new information that indicated that some of the things we had written about Korry were wrong. My God, if we were wrong in any way I would want to correct it. I asked him to write it for the Times." Rosenthal felt the Times had a particular responsibility to correct the record. Says...
...published [the Korry story] extensively and on the front page. There was no question that we should correct the record on the front page." Rosenthal apparently did not know that much of the evidence cited by Hersh had been kicking around for years or that Hersh had been pressing Korry for help on his book...
...make employees become more productive and stay for longer periods of time. The existing policy might be tolerable for the Coop's younger workers, but it is unfair to the older and more senior employees who must make ends meet in starkly inflationary circumstances. Union representation could correct this injustice by raising wages, improving benefits and establishing a more stable and equitable employment policy...
...required of new clergy. Presbyterian ministers formerly had to pledge that they "receive and adopt" the Westminster Confession and catechisms. Since 1967 they have only had to promise to be "instructed" and "continually guided" by nine creeds and confessions. The Permanent Judicial Commission decided the local presbytery had been correct in considering Kaseman's views "within the acceptable range of interpretation" permitted by the new vows...
Government forces claim that they killed 1,500 guerrillas in the first two weeks of the offensive, while losing only 150 of their own troops. Other observers put the number of guerrillas killed closer to 500. Even if the higher figure were correct, that would still leave an estimated 3,500 guerrilla fighters and 5,000 armed supporters entrenched in strongholds around the country. Some members of the ruling civilian-military junta concede that the leftists are far from vanquished and may actually be regrouping for a new assault...