Word: bs
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...have put his money on Edgar G. Ulmer, who with such no-budget films as Bluebeard and Detour was spinning gold out of Poverty Row dross. But fate had a couple of twists in store. Ulmer never graduated to A-level movies. Mann did - after making some remarkable killer Bs...
...from perfect. Evidence from William B. Munro, the professor of Government 17 in 1928, suggests that the ample free time of reading period could damage the standing of already less competent students. He found that the extra time improved the grades of students already earning As and Bs, but that coursework done after reading period resulted in lowered grades for the lowly D and E earners. Munro concluded that “as Government 17a is concerned there is ground for the conclusion that the profitableness of the reading period is almost exactly proportioned to the quality of the student...
...sometimes futile chase, the reader (or viewer or listener) has to be more skeptical at the outset. Although it seems that younger people are better at this online scrutiny than their elders—a topic that needs much more research—almost everyone needs a BS-detector upgrade. A democratized media sphere has clear advantages over the controlling, top-down system of the past. But our newfound freedoms as users of information have their complications; and we need to deploy better tools—starting with a strong dose of common sense—to make the best...
...BS 60/Gov 1093. “Ethics, Biotechnology, and the Future of Human Nature...
...supposed liberal bias, in particular that of NOW with Bill Moyers. It would have been a more convincing argument if Moyers had not left the show months before. This clumsy partisan meddling-from the head of the very body meant to shield public broadcasting from political influence-put the BS...