Word: blackboarding
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Ruth has astounded the faculty at St. Hugh's with the range of her intellect and the ease with which she masters subjects. In one seminar, while other students were struggling with a complex theorem that an academician was elaborating on a blackboard, Lawrence pointed out an error that the lecturer had made. She raced through Oxford's three-year course in two years. Her test papers were spun out with little apparent need to pause over the most puzzling problems. "I think while I write," she explains with a shrug. Mathematics appeals to her spirit of discovery, she says...
Deficit Mending Last week, during negotiations among E.U. Finance Ministers, Luxembourg 's Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker sounded like a calculus professor who'd run out of blackboard space. He's struggling with a difficult problem: how to revamp the stability and growth pact - the much-violated E.U. doctrine designed to govern fiscal rectitude - a task that falls to Juncker while his country holds the rotating E.U. presidency. The pact caps euro-zone countries' deficits at 3% of GDP; Germany and France want to change the rules on what spending gets counted in deficit calculations. Germany, for example, wants...
...last night’s meeting, Mahan unveiled a blackboard sketch of the three decentralized branches, which elicited whistles from council members...
...being used now, when they cost about $10,000 apiece, imagine what we'll see when technologies like light-emitting polymers and e-Ink allow us to make even larger, thinner and higher-quality displays for perhaps as little as $100. In the mid-1800s, the introduction of the blackboard revolutionized classroom education. These displays could have a similar impact, not only in classrooms (in the form of electronic whiteboards) but also for signs, home entertainment and even interior wallpaper...
Suddenly the man reaches into his satchel, takes out a brick and hurls it at the blackboard. All 500 eyes shoot down as he announces his name and his intention: he is “Romanticus;” he has a bomb; he declares “war on the [expletive] United States of America;” and if anyone moves, they are all going...