Word: incorrectable
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sights are more forlorn than an old sci-fi film whose predictions of the future have, with the passing of time, been proved incorrect. We watch the flying cars, the robotic dogs, the pills that expand with a drop of water into seven-course meals and think: "This future's already past. This film was set in 1980; it's 1999 already, and none of this has happened." It's a fate worse than simply being dated. Films set in the hippie '60s or the greedy '80s will always have a time and place; futuristic failures belong nowhere, residing...
...first sentence of your editorial, which states that the University of California Board of Regents "phased out affirmative acton in 1997 after the passing of Proposition 209," is factually incorrect. The Regents voted to end affirmative action in 1995, two years before the passage of Prop. 209 and began to phase out affirmative action in the graduate schools the following year...
...first sentence of your editorial, which states that the University of California Board of Regents "phased out affirmative action in 1997 after the passing of Proposition 209," is factually incorrect. The Regents voted to end affirmative action in 1995, two years before the passage of Prop. 209 and began to phase out affirmative action in the graduate schools the following year...
...student taking a GRE computer-based test (CBT) is initially given an "average level question," according to Johnson. The testing program responds to a correct answer by raising the student's score and offering a higher question next. An incorrect answer results in a lowered score and an easier follow-up question...
...major guide to college admissions admitted yesterday that it erred by publishing an incorrect statistic on Harvard's diversity...