Word: correctives
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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HARVARD is perfectly willing to convene committees and issue reports to correct its pathetically low proportion of minority and women faculty. Unfortunately, it has a poor track record for following up on its pronouncements and posturing with concrete, sustained actions...
Citizens angered by noise from two local Star Markets gained the sympathy last night of City Council members frustrated by their inability to correct the problem...
...hear that the politically correct response to the ongoing. NYNEX strike--the way that we students can best express our solidarity with the oppressed employees of the telephone company--is to refuse to pay our phone bills this month. To me, that seems a tempting way to "fight the power," but in the end it's a move that my roommates and I simply cannot afford to make...
...sake of balance, I must report that many clips in my ego folder are unexceptionable. National Review, for instance, recently hollered indignantly about the tilt of something I'd written. Fair enough; my prose was quoted accurately. Still other stories are both factually correct and somewhere between benign and laudatory. (These will be suitably framed and hung on my office wall as soon as time permits.) But there are enough unalloyed clinkers in this little collection to raise disturbing questions. If Washingtonian didn't get my pay right, how many other numbers in that story were wrong...
...universities have remained silent on this issue. Harvard, in its own statement released two weeks ago, two months into the investigation, states merely it will correct any practices found to violate federal...