Word: account
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Perhaps the most disturbing implication of the government's growing insistence on effort reporting is the possibility that it may some day adopt a meaningful method -- as opposed to the present procedure -- of making Faculty members account to the Federal bureaucracy for their time. The assumption that government control of its research funds extends to the working habits of researchers is dangerous and open-ended...
...Unlike virtually all other reports on Germany and Kiesinger by the various news media, your favorable account was a pleasure to read. It helped to offset the effects of 20 years of tongue-lashing...
...otherwise pleasant and accurate account of my dance [Dec. 9], TIME reported that I supplied the New York Times with a list of those invited. Although it is true that the Times printed a somewhat incomplete and inaccurate guest list, this list was not obtained from me nor was it published with my knowledge or permission...
Uncertain Domain. The map of the U.S. publishing world is divided into three unequal sectors. The largest consists of text-and reference books-chiefly encyclopaedias-which account for 50% of book sales and most of the industry's profits. Some firms devote themselves largely to this field. Qrqwell-Collier & Macmillan, one of the giants, does an annual business of $142 million. The second sector, where profits are just as reliable, is religious publishing; the Bible steadily sells 30 million copies a year...
...become more lenient even in these cases over the last few years. Before, whenever there was even a hint of plagairism, a boy would be fired immediately, while now, if he is a freshman, considerations such as whether he knew what he was doing are often taken into account. A great deal depends on whether the plagiarism was intentional and the length of the plagiarized passage. But Weinberg insists that this is the area in which the Ad Board ought to be particularly tough--"intellectual honesty should be one of the strictest rules of the University," he said...