Word: corrects
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...TIME almost always succeeds in reporting events in correct terminology. But your story on the electrical blackout contained a bit of faulty terminology. You said that "the power output surged from 1,500 mega volts to 2,250." Power output is measured in watts or megawatts (millions of watts), not in megavolts. And anyone with a feel for electric power systems would immediately recognize 1,500 megavolts (1,500,000,000 volts) as an impossibly high voltage in any case. TIME was not alone in having this problem. Your account was more accurate from the standpoint of terminology and general...
...umpteenth time, Ho denounced "U.S. aggression," calling it "the sole root of the serious situation in Viet Nam and in Southeast Asia." His letter then proceeded to enunciate the unvarying set of preconditions to peace talks that Hanoi laid down last April. Once again Ho insisted that the "most correct way" to end the war was for "the U.S. imperialists" to withdraw their troops, abandon their ally and accept the Viet Cong's program for communization of South Viet...
...military Communist threat to Europe has so markedly declined in recent years that NATO's importance is increasingly a matter of politics and status. De Gaulle is correct enough when he asserts that NATO is essentially an American command. The NATO "sword" remains the U.S. nuclear arsenal. The NATO shield is the 27 divisions, six of them American, twelve West German, that are assigned for integrated use in the event of a Soviet land attack on Western Europe. Many of NATO's divisions, including German ones, are equipped with tactical nuclear weapons-but in all cases the warheads...
...situation. In 15 years Dagenham grew twelve times larger than its prewar size, but British management failed to keep up. When Ford of Detroit took control, it was faced with falling profits, a hopelessly hidebound pyramidal management and an inadequate pool of promising young British executives. To correct the situation, Ford rushed over some of its own bright young men, just as it had done without difficulty at the German Ford plant in Cologne. Some of the Americans are at Dagenham temporarily, will be sent on to other countries later...
...Until now, we've studied cases that confirmed our theory--quantum electrodynamics--and that's been the end of it," Pipkin explained. "We know of events the theory doesn't predict accurately, but we can't do anything with them if we can't correct the theory...