Word: correctives
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Says Helmut Sonnenfeldt, who as an assistant to Henry Kissinger was an Administration colleague of Weinberger's: "I'd expect him to be very jaundiced on Defense spending without limit, to bring an air of realism and reason to the Defense budget process." Whichever opinion is correct, there is no doubt which client Lawyer Weinberger will be serving to the best of his ability: Ronald Reagan...
...most part Berlow did not spend much time thinking about the CRR, because its goal--the preservation of correct and respectful behavior--seemed irrelevant in light of events in the world outside. "The war," he concluded then and concludes now, "was a hell of a lot more important than behaving in a gentlemanly manner...
British officials insist that neither the hunger strike nor the terrorist actions of the I.R.A.'s Provisional wing are supported by a majority of Ulster's Catholic community. Initially, that judgment was probably correct, but Catholic political leaders are now troubled by a shift in attitude since the prisoners began their fast. If even one of the hunger strikers dies, warned Seamus Mallon, the moderate deputy leader of the Social Democratic and Labor Party, there will be a new outbreak of violence. "It will make martyrs of those men," he said...
...those mistakes--one which Zhao believes will haunt PRC leaders for some time--is economic imbalance. Despite recent decentralization efforts, Chinese leaders' attempts to correct the economy's heavy industry and urban biases have not yet been successful. Citing a steel plant, which has already cost the regime more than $20 billion, Zhao says, "It's like sitting on a tiger. You can't give it up because you've sunk so much money into it, and you can't continue it because it's costing more and more...
Because color-consciousness created an inequality among races during the past 200 years, some of the mechanisms necessary to correct this inequality--such as affirmative action--must be raceconscious, Denise Carty-Benia, a professor of law at Northeastern University, said last night...