Word: correctives
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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What does prudence entail? Let's start with the prudent position on free speech. Prudence settles for toleration instead of insisting on the radical elimination of prejudice. It's true that politically-correct types like to pass themselves off as old-fashioned liberals by claiming that what they're doing is "promoting tolerance...
Paglia commended Mansfield for his support ofColorado's law limiting gay rights because heconfronted politically correct opinions...
...allegations have split the archaeology winginto two camps, with van der Merwe's supporterscharging his accusers with trumping up theallegations to damage the professor and further a"politically correct" agenda...
Aides say Clinton is aware of the problem but has trouble taking the steps to correct it. Where once he participated in grueling, two- and three-hour briefings on everything from the budget to the rehiring of fired air-traffic controllers, he has begun to realize that he was having, as he put it, "arguments I didn't need to win." He once insisted on sitting through a briefing on maritime reform only to say afterward, "I shouldn't have spent an hour on that." Observed an official: "He does want to be endlessly involved in the minutiae. He sits...
...copy of report #507451 lends some credence to the sources' accounts. While the date written at the top is correct, the date from the department's electronic stamp--My 2--is just plain wrong. And Police Lt. Lawrence J. Murphy says that stamp "doesn't malfunction." Unless, of course, someone needed to change the date to backdate a report...