Word: actualizations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Many Western observers attending an international peace forum in Moscow three weeks ago were startled when Kremlin Critic Andrei Sakharov showed up for Mikhail Gorbachev's closing address, listened intently and applauded. But few at that conference had a chance to learn the actual views of the physicist who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1975. Sakharov seemed to avoid the press, confining his remarks to closed-door sessions with fellow scientists. Only tantalizing snippets of his opinions leaked...
...that contagiousness was intended to fall within its definition of handicap. The majority of the Justices were convinced, however, that in amendments to the law the legislators had acknowledged that the "myths and fears about disability and disease are as handicapping as are the physical limitations that flow from actual impairment...
...fact that some persons who have contagious diseases may pose a serious health threat to others," he wrote, "does not justify excluding from the coverage of the Act all persons with actual or perceived contagious diseases." Accordingly, he left it for a lower court to determine, for instance, whether Arline could safely re-enter the classroom or be assigned to a nonteaching...
...design principles. At the same time computer simulations of thermonuclear explosions are also quite helpful (calculations of explosive processes exhibiting spherical symmetry or symmetry of the axis of rotation are completely reliable; the reliability and accuracy of these calculations can be verified by comparing the computer simulation of actual test results obtained for analogous charges exploded in the past...
When Harvard's Economics Department wanted to improve its huge introductory course, Social Analysis 10, researchers did a careful study which compared course objectives to actual results. The analysis showed that students retained broad ideas from the course, but not specific details. As a result, Economics Department instructors revised their teaching stratagies to eliminate much of the technical terminology, which students were forgetting anyway, from the course...