Word: correctives
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that the first migration took place not 11,500 years ago but 20,000 or 30,000 or even 50,000 years ago. Although the evidence is still sketchy, archaeological digs in Chile, Brazil, Venezuela, the U.S. and Canada have yielded tantalizing clues that this radical notion might be correct. "This is a hot area of research," says Dennis Stanford of the Smithsonian Institution. "Man's origin in the New World is one of the major unanswered questions of archaeology...
...writing to correct a factual error I made in my discussions with the Undergraduate Council on Sunday night, which were the subject of an article in Monday's Crimson. General Colin Powell is apparently not the first African-American to be invited as Harvard's principal Commencement speaker. During the past 25 years, the speakers have included Barbara Jordan in 1977 and Ralph Ellison in 1974. Neil L. Rudenstine
Yeltsin suspects his supporters' Constitutional Court challenge to this requirement will not succeed, because the Chief Justice, Valeri Zorkin, has joined forces with the parliamentary camp in earlier struggles. If his suspicion is correct, he will issue a decree dismissing the new majority provision as "a crude violation of the constitution and the law on referendums." In other words, if he gains the approval of a simple majority of those who vote, he will raise his own hand as the winner. Once that is done, he says, he intends to be "more decisive" in pursuing a "whole package" of initiatives...
...affections lie and casts serious question on his ability to impartially administer the rules of the College where a group such as the BGLSA is concerned. Is a group's right to free speech and the protection of the University dependent on its status as a "politically correct" organization? Can students threaten, deface, and assail without fear of University action so long as their target is an unpopular group such as AALARM...
...That's correct," said the woman. "They were in brown paper bags, sometimes with a plastic bag inside...