Word: corrective
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...DENG'S ATTEMPT to correct what he now publicly calls "the Cultural Revolution mistake"--a period of Maoist excess which, some analysis believe, threw China 20 or 30 years back in technology--will be much more difficult to effect than the Chinese leaders, or foreign journalists, would have us believe. There was a great optimism following the last bang of the gavel in the Great Hall: a new leadership, a reaffirmation of will, a "new" plan. But beyond the talk of economic modernization--a goal that China must undoubtedly pursue--lie obstacles that the best rhetoric and the most carefully...
...There's nothing chicken-hearted about Graham Allison," Jackson says, adding, "He's a tenacious, dogged apostle of points of view, but is mature enought to modify or correct his point of view when opposing arguments prevail." Schelling points out that the dean's position often shrouds his inner self. "A lot of people probably find him a little distant, harsh, overbearing, or thick-skinned. To do his job he has to be--most of us are not good at giving people bad news, but as dean he is fully responsible for all the hard decisions," Schelling says, evoking questions...
While administrators are maintaining that the report proposes nothing that will significantly change their direction in the next few years, representatives of minority student organizations are questioning whether the committee was heading in the correct direction in the first place...
Since scientists first began manipulating genes, they have been envisioning a brave new world in which diseases from Huntington's chorea to sickle-cell anemia to possibly diabetes could be cured simply by inserting the correct strip of DNA into the body's cells. So far, though, most of the genetic tinkering has been limited to transplanting genes into isolated cells in laboratory dishes or into bacteria...
While administrators are maintaining that the report proposes nothing that will significantly change their direction in the next few years, representatives of minority student organizations are questioning whether the committee was heading in the correct direction in the first place...