Word: correctives
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...steady deterioration in Soviet-American relations over the past three years is, in Vance's view, the fault of the Carter Administration as well as of the Kremlin. He believes that President Carter came to the presidency with sure instincts and clear, correct goals on virtually every important international issue except how to manage the superpower relationship...
...problems and the necessity for solutions. On this point, the participants took comfort from a specially commissioned poll, which reported that an overwhelming 90% of Americans already believe the economy is headed in the wrong direction and 87% acknowledge that drastic, possibly painful steps must be taken to correct the situation. Nonetheless, there was at least one hint that the message of cooperation and joint solutions may not be getting across. Despite repeated invitations, only three middle-ranking labor representatives bothered to attend the conference...
...write to correct a number of serious errors of fact which occur in the article on the History Department in the Crimson of April 28. First of all, we have hired two new assistant professors of American history, not as the article states, "two new professors and three assistant professors...
Congratulations for your thoughtful article "Modernizing the Case for God" [April 7]. I appreciate the breadth of TIME'S coverage as represented by articles like this one. I should be grateful if you would correct the attribution of the quotation concerning the analogy between scientific data and telephone numbers. Though I included this statement in an essay that I wrote some years ago, I cannot claim credit for its authorship. It was originally made by English Astronomer Sir Arthur Eddington...
Badini says that sections also often leave much to be desired. "Often people in the sections would correct the grad students and that was kind of disappointing," he says. But Green says that he hasn't received "massive complaints" about the sections, adding, "They're small intensive groups and if you don't happen to hit it off with your section leader, then you might be disappointed...