Word: corrects
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Right-wingers may be correct in claiming "a very significant victory." In a pale but disturbing analogue of the Lysenko affair, scientific judgments have been alloyed, if only slightly, with politico-religious dogma, creating / an unwelcome precedent for a nation that needs to stay even -- in some cases to catch up -- with its competitors. The camel's nose is now in the tent...
...Berger asserts that "nerds should be grateful to their persecutors" because it is this persecution that makes them turn to books. Even if this may be a correct explanation of the "causes" of nerdiness in some people, Berger's normative assertion is surely ridiculous, if not dangerous. By the same token, he would claim that European Jews should be grateful to anti-Semitism for having helped to produce Einstein, Freud, or Marx...
Alex: That's correct. The Crimson had recovered from a 10-point deficit to threaten the Big Green cushion in the waning moments of the game. But unlike Patrick Ewing and his friends, or Randall Cunningham and his cohorts, Coach Roby and his crew could not quite finish the effort...
...word sounds, it is actually a euphemism; it really means general decline. Gorbachev personifies to his own people, and should personify to the outside world, a damning revelation about Soviet history: Russia made a huge mistake at the beginning of the 20th century, one that it is trying to correct as it prepares to enter the 21st. Having already missed out on what the 18th and 19th centuries offered in the way of modernity, including much of the Industrial Revolution and the democratic revolution, Russia then missed whatever chance World War I and the collapse of the monarchy gave...
...presidential palace in Bucharest; by Friday morning, they were gone. But unlike the bloodless revolutions in the rest of the Warsaw Pact countries, the Rumanian convulsion was soaked in blood. The number of casualties is still not known, but if the estimates of thousands killed turn out to be correct, Ceausescu's name will be indelibly linked to one of the largest government-inflicted massacres since World War II. Ceausescu fled his grandiose palace only after the army refused to shoot demonstrators and many troops switched sides, joining them...