Word: correctives
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...European foreign minister who had been worried about Muskie's lack of diplomatic experience, the American came across as "serious, correct and very intuitive, not a lawyer like Vance. And I believe that he is not a person to be bullied by anybody." Muskie indeed admitted to newsmen that "I've always found it useful for people to think of me as an intimidating sort of fellow...
...Technically correct; officially, it is up to the civilian government to impose or rescind martial...
...positions is more important when they come directly into conflict. The Quincy House Film Society should have been sensitive to the wishes and feelings of many within the Harvard community and never chosen to show the film. But once they had decided to ignore the outcry, they were correct in not bowing to a challenge from the state that can only be described as dangerous to First Amendment rights. Friday afternoon, after a judge properly denied a motion to enjoin the showing, officials of the district's attorney's office threatened to arrest Carl Stork and Nathan Hagen anyway...
...part of a wave of writing reform that is sweeping through schools, colleges and businesses all over the U.S. In the age of talk shows, tape recorders, telephonitis and declining educational standards, the clearly written word is swiftly becoming a lost art. The many new courses attempting to correct that drift are concerned not with "creative" writing but with something almost as rare: clear, usable, everyday prose...
...experiencing the pangs of composition can be a humbling experience. Taking criticism from others is painful but useful. Concedes Beverly Been, director of freshman composition at Washington's Walla Walla College: "In the past all I cared about was that students produced a paper that was grammatically correct. It may, in fact, have said nothing...