Word: correctness
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...They said we were correct that the instructions to the jury on the discrimination count were erroneous," said Allan A. Ryan, Jr., the University attorney who worked on the case...
...which he discussed facts and legends, long circulated on the Internet and elsewhere, regarding the travails endured by men who had signed the Declaration of Independence. This material, all in the public domain, had been previously circulated by people such as Rush Limbaugh and Paul Harvey. Jacoby undertook to correct some of the facts. In an e-mailed version of his column, sent to 100 friends and associates, he made it clear the material at hand was much-circulated boilerplate. In his printed Globe column, he did not make that fact clear. The Globe's fastidious editors might have suggested...
Indeed, unless these clinical trials run into unexpected snafus, a long and fierce debate may soon be resolved. As the Alzheimer Association's Thies puts it, "Either the beta-amyloid hypothesis is correct, in which case new therapies should come very quickly, or it isn't, in which case researchers at major laboratories will very quickly switch their efforts to more productive directions...
...European companies operate at a disadvantage on the Web. E.U. regulations force them to charge VAT to their customers wherever they are located; non-E.U. firms do not force consumers to pay the tax anywhere. Brussels has been under pressure from member states and European content providers to correct that obvious flaw in the tax regime. (Revealingly, the commission did not propose adopting the non-European practices...
...next learned that our daughter was one of 865 Emilys--there were no Emilis--born in 1989 in Illinois. Because a spelling change doesn't affect pronunciation, my husband and I can "correct" Emily's birth certificate for just $15. For $170 we can file a 12-page petition for a name change in the New York county where we now live...