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  • In these times of fiscal austerity, we need to reexamine correction's "blank check" and what it means to us as a society.

    James Bell: Justice: In Need of Overdraft Protection James Bell 2011

  • Michael Enright, the 21-year-old accused of slashing a taxi driver after questioning whether he was a Muslim, was transferred to Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan Thursday night where he was admitted to a secured psychiatric ward, according to city correction's officials.

    Attack Suspect Held at Hospital 2010

  • During the escape, he allegedly shot a correction's officer to death with the guard's own gun.

    CNN Transcript Jun 25, 2007 2007

  • It was a prison inmate who authorities say shot and killed a correction's officer and escorted him to his medical appointment at the University of Utah and then fled, went on a high - speed chase, finally had to be pulled over.

    CNN Transcript Jun 25, 2007 2007

  • She appeased angry parents, and many a time prevented the fall of correction's rod.

    Sowing Seeds in Danny Nellie L. McClung 1912

  • She appeased angry parents, and many a time prevented the fall of correction's rod.

    Sowing Seeds in Danny 1908

  • Thus Elias punished many with death, and when the disciples would take example from him they were rebuked by the Lord, who did not censure this example of the Prophet, but their ignorant use of it, seeing them to desire the punishment not for correction's sake, but from angry hate.

    Catena Aurea - Gospel of Matthew 1225?-1274 1842

  • This is based on our outlook about the level as well as the timing of the current correction's inflection point mid to end of Q3 2011.

    unknown title 2011

  • Apropos, for correction's sake do not address to me supervisor, for that is an honour I cannot pretend to -- I am on the list, as we call it, for a supervisor, and will be called out by-and-by to act as one; but at present I am a simple gauger, tho 't'other day I got an appointment to an excise division of £25 _per annum_ better than the rest.

    The Letters of Robert Burns Robert Burns 1777

  • Stocks were generally higher on Friday, with the S&P 500 snapping a four-day losing streak that had put the correction's low point earlier this month back in focus as investors continued to fret over signs of a faltering economic recovery.

    The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed 2010

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