Word: actualizing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Just as actual violence needs to be denounced and punished, so do words that promote, lead towards or support violence. It is ridiculous that in the name of "freedom of speech" we must wait passively while a group declares that it is going to blow up government officials, murder the prime minister or carry out genocide...
Ironically, according to Jayne, the worst part of the technician's job is a rotating schedule. Since technicians wake patients up and bring them meals, a regular staff schedule would give subjects time cues," or clues about what the actual time is rather than what time they are subjectively experiencing...
...staff are carefully trained not to provide inadvertent time cues to the subjects, since any apprehension by a subject of the actual time could ruin a study...
...event that a technician inadvertently leaves a document in a subject's room, all paperwork is labelled with a "lab time" that disguises the actual time and does not rely on a.m. and p.m. distinctions...
...defendant's coiffure. Last Friday the government announced it was withdrawing its appeal of the mistrial ruling made the day before by U.S. District Judge Lawrence McKenna. The judge had declared the mistrial because the jury informed him it was hopelessly deadlocked--after only five hours of actual deliberation. It seems that one of the jurors had a plane to catch to South Africa on Friday, with a nonrefundable ticket. King, 64, who has survived a 1985 tax-evasion case, three grand jury probes and an fbi sting, had wriggled off the hook again, possibly because of airline pricing policies...