[Ads-l] course-correct, v.

[Dan Goncharoff]

Google Books has it back to 1979:

"As Carter Hawley Hale's Philip Hawley observed recently, in describing his
own company's $600 million slated for expansion over the next five years,
Retailing's ability to course-correct is high.

https://books.google.com/books?id=hAwXAQAAMAAJ
Stores, Volume 61


DanG

On Sun, Dec 31, 2017 at 10:22 PM, Arnold M. Zwicky <zwicky at stanford.edu>
wrote:

>
> > On Dec 31, 2017, at 9:51 AM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM>
> wrote:
> >
> > Newt Gingrich:
> >
> > "By June, it may be too late to course-correct."
>
>
> from my files on (selected examples of) 2pbfVs:
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> 87. course-correct
>
> Jon Lighter to ADS-L 10/3/11:
>
> CNN: “How does Rick Perry course-correct?”
> Talking Head: “I’m not sure that he *can* course-correct.”
>
> [presumably from course correction]
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>
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