Word: correctable
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...seem condescending and patronizing. But being too rough also has its perils. Humor has to watch its step. A joke the slightest bit off-key can come across as a sexist put-down. When anything a candidate says can be used against him, even metaphors must be sexually correct. Warns Republican political consultant Eddie Mahe: "A sports reference like 'three yards and a cloud of dust' can get you in trouble if you are running against a woman...
...blocks at the Karnak temple in Luxor, Egypt. According to Yurco, the figures dressed in ankle-length clothes at the upper left corner of the top slab are the defeated Israelites; more Israelites lie in a confused jumble at the slab's bottom edge. If Yurco's theory is correct, these images would predate the earliest known depiction of the Israelites by six centuries. The figures in the bottom slab depict Merenptah's defeat of the Canaanite city of Ashkelon...
Reacting promptly to correct the mistake, the worst in its history, Larousse suspended all sales of the 1,700-page, $75 dictionary, which sells more than a million copies a year, and recalled the 180,000 volumes already distributed so corrected champignon stickers can be placed over the erroneous captions. Cost: $5.5 million...
...human rights because science always requires independent thought. Even if you are an important man and you say something, nobody just believes it. If a scientist submits a paper to a journal, it goes to a referee for comments. But in the Communist Party they always say they are correct. This is very difficult to reconcile with the scientific approach...
...handling the crisis, vs. 33% who gave him good marks. When asked which party they blamed most for the thrift mess, 36% said the Republicans, while 18% said the Democrats were mostly at fault. Only 12% said they have a lot of confidence in the government to correct the S&L mess. Another 59% indicated they were losing confidence in their local...