Word: corrective
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...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 He is absolutely correct; until the legislature repealed zoning exemptions last year, educational institutions were not prohibited from putting offices anywhere because legally they couldn't be stopped.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...
...inquire, "Gentlemen, are you ready?" A pause, and then: "Play!" Thus the 94th Wimbledon Tennis Championships are scheduled to begin. At one end of that storied court will stand Bjorn Borg, defending champion, the only modern player to win four straight Wimbledon titles ? and, if the oddsmakers are correct, the first man to win five. Not quite ready yet for tea and reverie, he returns to Wimbledon seeking to etch even more deeply his record as the greatest champion in the history of the game's most fabled tournament, and one of the most successful athletes of any sport...
...Mexico is officially bilingual... 'A low regard for life is part of Mexican culture, so when an illegal comes north, that culture usually travels with him'... 'The country is being overwhelmed, with no effort being made to stop it. But I think a change in the national attitude could correct...