Word: correctives
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...letter from the registrar's office last month saying their diplomas were invalid due to a printing error--the titles of House Master Sandra A. Naddaff '75 and Co-Master Leigh G. Hafrey '73 had been switched--and that the certificates had to be mailed back in exchange for correct ones...
...have sent each Mather House graduate a postage-paid mailer to use to return their incorrect diploma to use and we have printed a new, correct diploma for each of the graduates," Registrar Arlene F. Becella said...
...said. "A woman in your situation should be Miss or Ms., followed by your last name. Even if your name is different from your child's, it can be memorized." Ms. Baldrige thinks that "Miss Amy" is pleasingly Southern and old-fashioned but is not strictly correct...
Until 1996, U.C. Irvine relied on affirmative action to keep its conscience clear. The programmed trickle of acceptances helped 5% of local Hispanic students get into the U.C. campus. It was politically correct but mostly cosmetic. Stephen Carroll, a senior researcher at the Rand Corp., notes that percentages of blacks and Hispanics on California college campuses actually dropped under the old policy: "I am skeptical that affirmative action accomplished a heck of a lot for minorities." Even defenders concede its faults. "I think it was coming close to leading us to a quota system," says U.C. Irvine chancellor Ralph Cicerone...
...clock had been 25 hours, than it means every day you're going to correct it an hour," said Richard E. Kronauer, a member of the Harvard-MIT division of health sciences and technology and a senior author of the study...