Word: correctives
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Three days after he returned from Moscow, their suspicions proved correct: Radio Kabul announced that Karmal was stepping down to assume the ceremonial position of President. His successor as General Secretary is Major General Mohammed Najibullah, 39, a doctor known for his hard-line fidelity to Moscow and his ruthless efficiency for the past five years as head of Khad, the dread Afghan secret police. Although the transition was managed peacefully--the previous three Afghan leaders had been killed during transfers of power --Soviet tanks took up positions in the hills outside Kabul, and armored units patrolled the city...
...clean up the department, and it seemed like everything I did got blowed out of proportion. It was all over hell." The marshal expertly maneuvered his squad car into a position to cut off the young bikers. Both got off with warnings, and the admonition that failure to correct their legal obligations would amount to $700 in fines next time...
...taking the time to revise and amplify your report of my comments in order to correct any false impression that I am an enemy of welfare state liberalism who adheres to some marginal, exotic brand of ultra-radical politics. I embrace many of the political and moral sentiments associated with liberalism. I maintain, however, that the highest aspirations of liberalism can only be attained by a willingness to reject certain deeply entrenched social practices and by a willingness to indulge in speculative thought that some will condemn as hopelessly utopian. Randall Kennedy Harvard Law School
...followed the costly war, Skidelsky has found the perfect stopping point for Volume I. Here, at 36, in the fullness of his moral indignation, the very clever boy came to ripeness as a man as well as an economist. Presuming that in this century "only economics could provide the correct reasoning for the achievement of the chivalrous society," as Skidelsky puts it, Keynes staked the claim of the economist to be king...
However, other members of the 15-year-old coedsinging group said they supported the move. "I wasvery disappointed [at first] but I think it wasthe correct decision since a substantial numberfelt they did not want to go," said Collegiummember Jennifer R. Weiss '87. "It's unfortunatebut it had to happen. I would feel responsible ifI felt I forced the people who had misgivings togo on the tour...