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Word: correctives (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Though many steps were taken to correct the horrors of Farview, it was not shut down. A few patients still remain there, though most were transferred out, and despite damning court evidence, most of the prosecutor's cases were dropped after widespread public pressure to let the hospital continue its normal operation...

Author: By F. MARK Muro, | Title: Under Control | 3/7/1980 | See Source »

Departmental autonomy and the apparent subjectivity of tenure and promotion criteria allow departments to cloak discrimination by paying only lip service to the search for qualified women (though in Nolan's case no search was even necessary). While standards continue to go unchallenged as somehow objectively correct, the History Department subverts the progress of qualified women further by inconsistently evaluating candidates even given their standards. "There is no question that the history department seriously underutilizes women," Phyllis Keller, Equal Employment Opportunity Officer for the Faculty, said recently. The department's decision to deny promotion to Mary Nolan is an example...

Author: By Alison Dundes and Alouette Kluge, S | Title: The Nolan Case | 3/6/1980 | See Source »

Several upperclassmen said yesterday they thought the guide was not completely accurate. "It is difficult to capture the spirit of a House except by living there," Amy K. Eiden '81, Leverett House committee chairman, said yesterday, adding that the Leverett analysis was partially correct...

Author: By Stephen H. Malloy, | Title: Freshmen Write Evaluation of Houses | 3/5/1980 | See Source »

...added that he plans to better integrate the K-School Library with the rest of the University library system and to correct for the "lack of leadership" that has plagued the library's recent past...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Kennedy School Librarian Plans for Library's Future | 3/4/1980 | See Source »

...Soviets are correct about the Siberian blast, they may be rewarded for their discovery. Because diamonds make up 1% to 2% of uralites, some 40 to 80 tons of these gems, which can be put to use in grinders, cutters and drill bits, should be scattered throughout the Tunguska area ready for the picking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Fireball over Siberia: 1908 | 3/3/1980 | See Source »

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