Word: correctives
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...cost-effective) Perot's departure from "normal" campaigning was. And Perot's approach was so in tune with his assaults on wasteful government spending that he appeared to be setting the right example of how to run for President without spending exorbitant sums. Perot's political instincts were probably correct when he refused a Rollins-recommended campaign that would have cost $147 million. In view of Perot's military background, his choice of a retired vice admiral for a running mate did not offer balance to his ticket. But it was his bowing out of the race, in deference...
...most of the week, she appeared to be correct, right down to the funny little plane that circled the convention center every day pulling a big blue sign that read back jack for president. Though only an ad for a hamburger chain, the warning was clear to deficit hawks, who heard the occasional chants from the floor of "Kemp-Dole, Kemp-Dole." Meanwhile, Kemp, who had just a few weeks before planned to stay miles away from the convention center, returned like the prodigal son, giving interviews, having tearful homecomings, comparing himself to Churchill, telling TIME...
...which would allow movement in his arms. Then he was told that he was a "C2 complete," which indicated no potential for improvement. A "complete" means that the spinal cord has been transsected, severed or so badly damaged that it can never be repaired. Fortunately, the first diagnosis was correct...
Together, the plays and books paint the fullest portrait yet of an artist whose vision of human existence as a painful, poignant marking of time between the crib and the crypt helped define our world view in the atomic age. In doing so, they correct the canard that Beckett's work is boring, mired in gloom; the Gate pieces were darkly funny and passionate. And they reveal Beckett, who may seem so forbidding and remote as to be of another species, as a stoic but gentle man, a hero of the French Resistance and a generous soul--he once impulsively...
...World Trade Center bombings, it seems that terrorism's vulture has found new carrion. It is a mark of the times in which we live that one's initial reaction is "terrorist bomb." As long as nations worldwide continue to pursue democracy--for all its failings--as the morally correct way to live, however, the freedoms they grant will be used against them by enemies who decry those freedoms as immoral. RAMON WIDMONTE Randburg, South Africa Via E-mail...