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Word: correctives (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...First of all, the correct measure is not theCPI," said Julianne Still Thrift, executivevice-president of the National Association ofIndependent Colleges and Universities...

Author: By Andrew J. Bates, | Title: College Tuition Increases Once Again Exceed Inflation | 8/8/1988 | See Source »

...alas. These are among the revelations in a Gallup study released last week on more than 10,000 adults from nine nations, including Italy, Mexico and Japan. The lowest scorers were young Americans, with an average of just 6.9 correct answers to 16 easy questions (Swedes were tops, with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Geography: A Lost Generation | 8/8/1988 | See Source »

...computer to make decisions, its maker trains it to recognize the patterns in any solution to a problem by repeatedly feeding examples to the machine. The computer responds to each example by randomly activating its circuits in a particular configuration. The trainer electronically reinforces any connections that produce a correct answer and weakens those that produce an incorrect one. After as many as several thousand trials, the computer activates only those circuits that produce the right answer. "It works just like a kid," says Farrokh Khatibi, senior product manager at AI Ware Inc., a 3 1/2-year-old neurocomputing company in Cleveland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: Putting Brainpower in a Box | 8/8/1988 | See Source »

...cease-fire is not a sound beginning to endthe war," Hamadi said. "The correct and theshort-cut beginning for peace passes throughdirect negotiation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sec. Gen. to Set Iran-Iraq War Cease-Fire Date | 8/2/1988 | See Source »

...cease-fire is not a sound beginning to end the war," Hamadi said. "The correct and the short-cut beginning for peace passes through direct negotiation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: U.N. Head to Announce Cease-Fire Date | 8/2/1988 | See Source »

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