Word: approaches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Fund raisers tend to be crass and hard sell," says Joseph Zengerle, a Washington lawyer and Dukakis money-maker. "But Bob brings none of that baggage with him." Farmer's approach is low key, almost to the point of deference. On the phone with a fund raiser from Florida, Farmer is the consummate flatterer. "You were with us when it was unfashionable, my friend," he says. He makes his pitch casually: "Can you put together another $10,000?" Farmer smiles and nods approvingly, winding up the call with his trademark breezy farewell: "You're a great American...
...physicians in Mexico City last January. Reaction to the moratorium ranged from outrage to cautious endorsement. "A complete ban really blocks the prospects of investigating what could be a promising medical procedure," says Dr. Robert Burke, a neurologist at the Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center in Manhattan. A better approach, he thinks, would be to allow research in a few supervised institutions to continue while the debate on the ethical issues goes...
...very happy about his efforts. But all of us are aware that it's a very complicated task. I know this American approach that every problem has to be solved. And immediately. But we have to accept that there are many problems in the world that are very difficult to solve and this is one of them...
...chips achieve their performance breakthroughs? In a word: RISC, for reduced instruction set computer. RISC is not a new technology, but a fresh approach to computing that challenges 25 years of semiconductor design. It focuses on a computer's most basic commands: the instructions that are embedded, or hard-wired, into the silicon circuitry of the machine's central processing unit. The first computers made do with a handful of primitive commands, such as LOAD, ADD and STORE, which programmers combined to perform complex tasks. Lacking a command to multiply 6 times 5, for example, they had to instruct their...
...essay on exactitude, he arrives at a sensible and workaday solution to Jacques Derrida's worries about language as a representation of absence rather than presence: "the proper use of language... is one that enables us to approach things (present or absent) with discretion, attention, and caution, with respect for what things (present or absent) communicate without words...