Word: incorrectness
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William N. Thompson's suggestion is both callous and incorrect. A few years ago, early retirement was pushed as a solution for unemployment. An unemployed young person is also costly to society. The culprit is inflation. When our Government balances the budget, inflation can be brought under control and hard-earned pensions can be enjoyed by retirees...
...home, he resumed his regular daily duties, with the full approval of the two physicians who treated him, Professor Marvin Gottesman and Professor Sylvan Lavie. The story in your report, that the Prime Minister has to put in a shorter working day, or is working less hours, is incorrect...
Handlin has sharp words for those who have fallen prey to the theory-without-evidence mode of historical accounting. He believes in sticking to the facts--even though at times the "provable facts" were actually incorrect. Works such as U.B. Phillips' American Negro Slavery, written in 1929, distorted the facts of history when they included as a "proven fact" that blacks were racially inferior. Although we are never told quite why, Handlin finds these illusions forgivable...
...situation that can be rectified over night. So really it's a combination of factors which could make the difference. To think that only one approach, one set of factors, i.e. coercion and pressure and boycotts can do the trick, well that's very superficial and incorrect...
...most engrossing--and most gross--of the characters in The Tempest is Prospero's "savage and deformed slave" Caliban, the subhuman offspring of a witch and a devil. It is incorrect to regard Ariel and Caliban as polarities. They are undeniably contrasted; but they also share a number of traits, such as distaste for physical labor, a yearning for freedom, a delight in pranks, a love of nature, an appreciation of music, and a fear of their master. Ariel has some coarse language and Caliban some ethereal lines...