Word: revisionism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Along with the revision of the SAT last year, Achievement tests were renamed SAT II. ("If you liked the SAT, you'll love SAT II.") Whereas in past years every uncanceled Achievement score became a part of each student's permanent testing record, students can now choose to send colleges...
'Substantial Revision'
"The committee will be evaluating every aspect of the undergraduate and graduate curriculum," Evans says. "There could be a substantial revision, not just cosmetic changes, nine months from now."
JUST BEFORE THE SENATE VOTED last week on its welfare-reform bill, New York's Daniel Moynihan, who had engineered his own revision in 1988, demanded a bit of rare institutional solemnity. Since most of his fellow Democrats would be embracing what he considered a historic betrayal of the poor...
The crime was far from the first or even the worst committed by American troops in the half-century they have been stationed in Japan. Nonetheless, the Okinawa rape is the biggest shock to the U.S.-Japan security alliance in years. Last week major Japanese newspapers called for a revision...