Word: check
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...laudable attempt to check the intrusiveness of Government, the Administration has occasionally stretched the limits of prudence and propriety. Reagan has slashed the budgets of regulatory and enforcement agencies, placed officials unsympathetic to vigorous enforcement in charge of the agencies, and given his Office of Management and Budget a virtual veto power over rules proposed by the Government's departments and agencies. These moves have eased the pressure on industry to conform to regulations that the Administration has been unwilling or unable to change through legislation or Executive action...
...effort to check Libyan Leader Muammar Gaddafi's expansionist aims, President Reagan had dispatched $25 million worth of military aid, two AWACS electronic surveillance planes, eight F-15 fighter escorts and a reconnaissance plane to the area. After some hesitation, French PresidentFrançois Mitterrand agreed last week to send 300 elite paratroopers as "trainers" and "advisers." But given the size of the Libyan commitment, which included 2,500 ground troops and impressive airpower, the limited U.S. and French assistance failed to turn the tide. In a press conference after the fall of Faya-Largeau, Reagan indicated that...
Business and journalism are in a more even balance now. More facts are on public record; corporations have set up sophisticated public relations operations; executives often find it prudent to talk to the press even when the news is embarrassing. All business magazines routinely back-check figures with corporate sources. But they do not provide a prepublication chance to learn what a competitor said or allow a quote by one of the corporation's own executives to be modified. Nobody wants to put out a Congressional Record full of flattened-out prose and "extended remarks...
...denied by Elisabeth Badinter, the French philosophy professor who wrote Mother Love: Myth and Reality. But even if a mother's nurturing is an instinct, it requires some experience as well, and if the ability is entirely a learned trait, it is sometimes none too well learned. To check on how consciously mothers interact with their babies, Psychiatrist Daniel Stern of the Cornell University Medical Center has been observing nearly 100 mothers playing with infants eight to twelve months old. "Whenever we notice that the baby has put on an emotional expression that the mother has seen, we look...
Testing such perceptions can be complicated. At M.I.T.'s Infant Laboratory, for example, University of Tokyo Graduate Student Shinsuke Shimojo has programmed a computer to check whether seven-month-old Whitney Warren can differentiate between a straight bar and a slightly indented bar. The computer makes the indented portion of the second bar move slightly. If Whitney can see the indentation, he will see its movement, and Shimojo, crouching behind the computer screen, can see his eyes move. Most babies spot the movement easily...