Word: correctives
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Smith had said Friday he would provide refunds only for students who have already called HDNS and given the service time to correct the problem...
...perceptions can be almost as important as actions, and image can be almost as important as reality. Is the President perceived to be tough, decisive, realistic? Is the U.S. perceived to be standing up to the Soviet Union? Until recently, the answer was no. Last week Carter sought to correct those problems of perception and image, and in large measure he succeeded. As Commander in Chief, he made the U.S. sound as though it is determined, in a way that it was not before, to stand up to the Soviet Union...
Mitchell Smith, the newly-appointed manager of HDNS said yesterday he plans to give refund checks to anyone who complained about undelivered papers during the semester, but he will not give them to people who didn't alert HDNS of the problem so that it could correct it before refunds became necessary...
...quips in his quiver for a bar mitzvah in Atlantic City, especially since the coming-of-age ceremony was his own. The comedian, now 73, somehow missed being confirmed 60 years ago. Rabbi Seymour Rosen was delighted to go to the gambling casino where Youngman was appearing to correct the oversight, and Tenor Jan Peerce was cantor. "Today," cracked Youngman, after reading his prescribed prayers in phonetic Hebrew, "I am a boy." Years ago, he insisted, "you got a fountain pen when you were bar mitzvahed. Now you get a computer." But the punch lines were watered with tears when...
...trying to correct the situation, Pope Paul VI chose conservative Adrianus Simonis as bishop of Rotterdam, stirring up a furor. Even so, two years later Paul added the more hard-line Gijsen to the hierarchy. With encouragement from the Vatican, the abrasive Gijsen set about creating a church within a church. He boycotted the Dutch church's official catechetical institute and its counseling center for troubled priests and nuns. When the Dutch Council of Churches took what he considered too tolerant a line on abortion and homosexuality, he unilaterally pulled out of it, while The Netherland...