Word: correctives
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...which some critics feel have become blurred in recent years. He wants no admission policy changes that could subvert the progress Yale has made from being a refuge for old blue bloods to becoming an institution with a 17% minority representation among undergraduates. Another priority is the need to correct Yale's faculty balance of only 18.7% women and 7.8% minorities. Schmidt also is set on shoring up Yale's natural-science studies, along with a moribund engineering program that his predecessor has been quietly resuscitating...
...Mark, if my facts are correct (and you may check them with any of your medical school colleagues: I suggest Dr. David Ho, of the Massachusetts General Hospital Infectious Disease Unit), what is your justification for "widespread testing for AIDS," which would be the point of departure for a level of irrational fear, discrimination, and Constitutional chaos the likes of which have never been seen in this country? Your Harvard Medical School appointment lends you credibility, far more than you deserve, but there is no medical justification for such measures. Period. The only one not giving the public a "straight...
...Bessel proposed that a comet was a loose clump of particles. He suggested the flares were fountains of these motes erupting from its nucleus and that they acted as a brake. Bessel's work was largely ignored at the time, but it turned out to be at least partially correct...
...groups that support freedom of the press, including one by noted Washington Lawyer Leonard Marks and another by Floyd Abrams, one of the U.S.'s foremost experts on press freedom. Nonetheless, President Monge has pointed out, "the opinion of the court is not binding," and in fact he is correct. The human rights court has no enforcement mechanism. Says Marks: "There are no troops to back...
...presentation of the facts of the U.S.'s intervention in Cambodia to prevent a Khmer Rouge victory deserves far more castigation than anything contained in either Rambo or Rocky IV. Yet the clear-cut double standards of an influential portion of the American public opinion prevent such consistent and correct analysis. David Rivera...