Word: correctives
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...politically correct are endlessly inventive. A high school in Portland, Ore., described a song as a "spiritual of color...
...Global Forum, fears about the future produced a melange of naive, unworkable and contradictory -- and occasionally inspiring -- notions of how the world might correct its course. But deepening and widening concern may yet lead to a coherent ethic that guides people toward life-styles that minimize damage to the biosphere. The more than 300,000 pledges by children to do something for the planet that were posted on bulletin boards next to the Tree of Life in Flamengo Park raise hopes that the next generation may mature with a deep awareness of the perils of waste and pollution. The question...
...Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan Administration and a leader of the supply-side revolution, believes that all the hand wringing over the deficit is misplaced. The worst thing about it, in Roberts' view, is that "it causes the government to keep doing the wrong thing to correct it" -- raising taxes of one kind or another and thereby inhibiting growth. "The deficit is only a problem if it continues to grow relative to the gross domestic product over a sustained period," says Roberts. "Even then, it would be acceptable if the percentage of gdp is lower than...
...office, he declared in an interview with TIME, "we will review the entire range of U.S.-Philippine relations. The rejection of the bases treaty may have given the wrong signals to our neighbors, including the U.S. and Japan, that we have become isolationist, but that's not correct...
...proton but with the mass of a mountain. Then, upsetting the universal belief that nothing, not even light, can escape from a black hole, he used the quantum theory to demonstrate that these miniholes (and larger ones too) emit radiation. Other scientists eventually conceded that he was correct, and the black-hole emissions are now known as Hawking radiation...