Word: correctives
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...four-mile stretch of border near San Diego, where some 300,000 illegal aliens were apprehended last year. INS officials maintain that the ditch, 5 ft. deep and 14 ft. wide, will frustrate high-speed car dashes across the border, which now average 400 a month, and * also help correct drainage problems in the area. A report by the Federation for American Immigration Reform supported the idea of the ditch. "Locking uninvited gate-crashers out," it said, "is just good common sense. Everyone has the right to lock his own back door." Associate Attorney General Francis Keating has come...
...York Times recently examined our generation's lingusitic creations and noted that the term "p.c." was foremost among them. It stands for "politically correct"; it is the detached and cynical term used to describe attitudes which are sympathetic to the demands for sensitivity. It describes those who believe the liberal litany unquestionable; it is the modernized version of the term "knee-jerk liberal...
...before, such liberalism was denigrated as the result of rote belief, now it is said to be the product of a desire to be "correct," fashionable. It is not so much unthinking, as conniving...
...couple of truisms have been established about George Bush since the election. One is that you've been liberated, that you're no longer the shackled George Bush of the vice presidency who was unable to speak his mind. Is that correct...
...election in '92 and then to a consensus verdict that he has been an effective President -- is going to require an even more disciplined devotion to competence over ideology. For although Bush has said, "We're coming in to build on the proud accomplishments of the past, ((not)) to correct ((its)) ills," a failure to redress the Reagan era's greatest ill could consign this President to political oblivion. Ironically, given his insistence that the key lesson to be learned from Reagan is that a successful President takes "a principled position and stays with it," Bush's own success...