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Word: correctives (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Savant: "Ah, I'm skating on thicker ice here. Cavities ((correct)), nearsightedness ((correct)) and I think a missing patellar reflex might indicate what Grandma used to call 'housemaid's knee' ((wrong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Charles Van Doren vs. the 1994 Quiz Show Dream Team | 9/19/1994 | See Source »

...Hirsch: "Dental decay, nearsightedness, no knee reflex ((correct...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Charles Van Doren vs. the 1994 Quiz Show Dream Team | 9/19/1994 | See Source »

...Ambrose: "Thomas Jefferson, John Jay, Henry Knox I had to look up Edmund Randolph and Samuel Osgood ((all correct...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Charles Van Doren vs. the 1994 Quiz Show Dream Team | 9/19/1994 | See Source »

...Savant:"The Locarno Pact ((correct)), signed by more countries than you named. But I don't know who officiated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Charles Van Doren vs. the 1994 Quiz Show Dream Team | 9/19/1994 | See Source »

Such optimism is comforting and, in a global perspective, almost certainly correct. National boundaries become ever less important in the world's economies; a job is a job, whether it be in Budapest, Buenos Aires or Birmingham, Alabama. Still, certain ancient human emotions have not yet adapted to the new realities. Some of the new expatriates tell of encountering resistance from their parents. When Rob Swift, 23, graduated from Stanford last year with a degree in international relations and announced that he had found a job in India, his mother offered to pay him to stay behind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Looking for Work? Try the World. | 9/19/1994 | See Source »

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