Word: circularity
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...achieved by projecting an image of the selected fairway on a 9-ft. by 9-ft. screen inside a large booth. When the player drives his ball against this screen, a computer measures its speed and direction, makes adjustments for hooks or slices, and controls the movement of a circular light that mimics the trajectory of the ball in flight...
...alternate path would include a circular route down Mt. Auburn St. and Putnam Ave. before returning to the garage via the Western Ave. bridge...
Harvard consistently cites financial difficulties as the obstacle to equal admissions. Such arguments are either circular or false. Figures from other colleges suggest increased coeducation does not diminish alumni contributions. By opening more places to women, Harvard will help create the capacity in more places to women to make large contributions to Harvard. Last year, the average pledge of Radcliffe seniors was higher than the average Harvard commencement pledge to the College Funds. A serious financial argument is possible only if you believe that women will never get equal wages for equal work, if you believe-as F. Skiddy...
Janov makes considerable strides beyond liberal psychotherapy, although sometimes he seems unclear as to the theoretical nature of the advance. In practical terms, he is satisfied by his cures. But his attempts to explain why are often agonizingly circular: I'm right because it works; it works because I'm right. By understanding the nature of Janov's stumbling advance, it is easier to articulate the shortcomings of his theory. Most of these weaknesses appear more explicitly in The Primal Revolution, a new and less formally structured book written to answer questions Janov believes The Primal Scream leaves unanswered...
Some administrators even admit that had the Union been visible this fall, the Kraus Plan never would have reached the implementation stage. But there was no Union, and graduate students put their faith in the Faculty-student Commisssion on Graduate Education. Then, as the Commission fell into circular debate and the budget deadline approached, the Kraus Plan was crystallized although the Commission never reached any concrete decisions on aid to graduate students. The student population was miffed. So the Union was reborn...