Word: correcting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There's no way these figures are correct," fumed Atlanta Mayor Maynard Jackson. "This just doesn't make any sense," protested Boston's Kevin White. New York's Mayor Edward Koch declared flatly: "We're certain that they are not accurate...
...that there are no civil rights in the U.S.S.R.? After all, you, a known enemy of that system, continue to publish in Pravda. One can only envy such tolerance!" He referred to your in correct identification of me as someone who "sometimes writes for Pravda. " At first I thought that the information was just a very amusing misprint - I have long stopped contributing to Pravda. Then I thought, thank God, TIME is not published in Moscow. In my days there, some editors of Pravda lost their jobs for far more innocent misprints. During the Stalin era many journalists ended their...
...apartment building, to office space. On the city's zoning books, Sumner Rd. is designated cl, which does not allow office use. So how can the University claim never to have broken zoning laws? Schmidt explains that "educational institutions are not prohibited from putting offices there." He is absolutely correct; until the legislature repealed zoning exemptions last year, educational institutions were not prohibited from putting offices anywhere because legally they couldn't be stopped. And until last weekend, while Harvard retained its own exemption, the University could have put the Science Center on pontoons and floated it down the Charles...
Keeping income and outgo in their correct ledgers during Reagan's fund-raising tours may give his accountants ulcers and has prompted an almost continuous IRS audit. But there is no indication that Reagan has been doing anything improper, and dual-purpose trips are not unique in U.S. politics...
...quantitative method of cliometrics (from Clio, the muse of history) has demonstrated ways in which computers can define trends and correct the errors of historical preconception. For years historians have spoken of the Civil War as the nation's economic breaking point, the moment when, as Charles and Mary Beard argued 50 years ago, the urban industrial North seized power from the agrarian South in a "second American revolution." Through cliometrics, says the University of Pittsburgh's Samuel Hays, historians have analyzed such production figures as railroad mileage and steel output, and found that the "takeoff points" occurred...