Word: correctives
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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British officials insist that neither the hunger strike nor the terrorist actions of the I.R.A.'s Provisional wing are supported by a majority of Ulster's Catholic community. Initially, that judgment was probably correct, but Catholic political leaders are now troubled by a shift in attitude since the prisoners began their fast. If even one of the hunger strikers dies, warned Seamus Mallon, the moderate deputy leader of the Social Democratic and Labor Party, there will be a new outbreak of violence. "It will make martyrs of those men," he said...
Because color-consciousness created an inequality among races during the past 200 years, some of the mechanisms necessary to correct this inequality--such as affirmative action--must be raceconscious, Denise Carty-Benia, a professor of law at Northeastern University, said last night...
...deformed inmate who could not close his mouth. But as Bear and Joy told a conference of their colleagues in San Francisco, these operations often pay dividends for society. Joy points with pride to a once unpopular prisoner at Virginia State Penitentiary, an antisocial murderer who, after surgery to correct a grossly protruding jaw, finally won the friendship of fellow inmates...
President Carter visited Iran once during Sullivan's tenure there, and on New Year's Day 1978 toasted the shah with remarks that Sullivan said were added to prepared "cool but correct remarks." In his toast, Carter called Iran "an island of stability in one of the most troubled areas of the world. This is a great tribute to you, your majesty, and to your leadership and to the respect, admiration and love which your people give...
...ongoing debate between evolutionists and creationists, I don't see one side correct and the other wrong. As a scientist, I cannot deny the convincing evidence that life evolved on this planet from the simple to the complex. As a philosopher, I cannot imagine that all this took place without some divine cause...