Word: correctives
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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SECRETARY OF EDUCATION William J. Bennett was correct last week when he accused Harvard of failing to meet its educational obligations to its students, even though his argument failed, as President Derek C. Bok claimed, to meet "high intellectual standards." It is unfortunate that Bennett's sloppy, unacademic approach and his arrogant manner obscured what could have been a convincing presentation...
Responding to Williams and Spence, Loury said in an interview that "no one will come out and say to you `we are using different standards."' But, he said, the pressure to employ the "correct" numbers of Blacks sometimes results in different implicit standards...
...liberal political type about referendum questions, the answer is quick in coming--"no, no, no, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes." No, this isn't a James Joyce impersonation, it's "politically correct" advice...
...However," he continued, "your basic point is correct. Yes, I do think there are too many mutual favors. The press cannot be impartial if it has its hand in the pocketbook of those which it means to cover...
Medical literature has been woefully slight, but doctors now point to a number of treatments, some as simple as a series of exercises to strengthen pelvic muscles, others involving surgery to correct an enlarged prostate or weak sphincter. New experimental medications may help block errant signals to the bladder's nerves or relax overly taut bladder tissue. Artificial sphincters opened by squeezing a small pump have been successfully implanted for more than a decade. Scientists at the University of California at San Francisco are testing a bladder pacemaker. Using a remote control, the patient can send signals to implanted electrodes...