Word: correction
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...General Motors actual research funds therefore come to about $20 million per year according to GM statistics. Ralph Nader, automotive safety crusader, recently estimated that a more correct figure would be about $8 million...
...gratification even briefly. Those individuals who proceeded from stem to tip rated high in such personality parameters as frustration-tolerance, self-security and confidence. In the American psychosocial tradition, they showed faith in the future, confidence in the Judeo-Christian ethic, and a conviction that delayed gratification is morally correct." Then there is the matter of eggs: "Several of the students, speaking of their reactions to poached eggs, wondered if they had really been born...
...time I felt that the decision of the President to drop the bomb was correct," Conant said yesterday. "Colonel Stimpson, then Secretary of War, got the opinion of the committee on whether there was any other way to demonstrate successfully the terrible power of the atomic bomb to end the war. I thought there was no other way, and I have no regrets about that decision...
Conant approved of President Nixon's speech condemning the use of chemical and biological warfare. "I never liked biological warfare," he commented, "perhaps because I didn't know much about it. But I was always worried that, if rumors were correct, we would have epidemics that couldn't be stopped-which would be worse than an atomic bomb...
...opting Wallace. The idea of Stennis' amendment is formally correct. Morally, there should be no distinction between the legally established dual educational systems of the South and the school segregation of the North, usually resulting, de facto, from housing patterns. Yet the idea is also subversive. The de facto separation of the North has still not been declared unconstitutional by the courts. Assaulting it across the board would represent a virtually impossible enforcement problem in many cities, whereas the de jure segregation of the South could legally be broken down. If the Stennis amendment became official policy, it would...