Word: correctives
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Right has long regarded busing as a "moral issue," and in a sense that is correct. When busing began in Boston five years ago, groups of white parents and students stood near South Boston High to shower rocks and bottles on busloads of Black students arriving from Roxbury. With the official encouragement of dozens of politicians, groups like ROAR (Restore Our Alienated Rights) and the South Boston Marshals did their best to disrupt the city with their rhetoric of race-hatred and neighborhood-pride...
...above Voyager 1's ten-sided body is 12 ft. in diameter. At 825 kg (1,820 lbs.), the whole machine weighs less than a Ford Escort. It moves through frictionless space effortlessly from its initial thrust, sometimes affected by the gravitational pull of planets, but able to correct its course with blasts from small thruster rockets. The most complex cluster of equipment is housed forward near its two TV cameras, and includes an infrared radiometer that measures the heat of planets and spectrometers to analyze composition of the atmosphere. The magnetometers for locating and measuring magnetic fields...
True, Jiang Qing, Mao's widow, makes a convincing villain: she all but destroyed the Peking Opera and the theater by permitting only dull, politically correct works. (Nowadays at theatrical performances, foreigners sometimes find themselves clapping more than the Chinese present; the guide explains that during the Cultural Revolution, when attendance was compulsory but the programs awful, the Chinese withheld applause as a form of retaliation, and are only now beginning to clap again.) Everybody knows that many of the bureaucrats who waged the Cultural Revolution still occupy high places. But the government's propaganda campaign lets writers...
...holding these corrupt individuals, you have destroyed the myth of U.S. invincibility. I don't have the words to thank you. May God reward you for your service." But during his private meeting with the two militants earlier, Khomeini had formally endorsed the transfer: "It is a correct move to delegate the issue to the government...
...study of minority and women Faculty members is to have any effect at all, it will take a concerted effort by Faculty members to carry out the step-by-step procedures set forth in the report. Administrators should make sure departments follow the guidelines and take actions to correct a disgraceful situation that has been accepted as the status quo for too long...