Word: commonness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...focus less on formulas than on analyzing the way a mathematician chooses a path to a solution. The technique is valid for higher math as well as basic arithmetic. In East Lansing, Mich., Magdalene Lampert's fifth-graders connect numbers to real-world situations. Instead of dutifully working out common denominators to compare fractions, for example, one of her students reasoned that "five-sixths is smaller than seven-eighths because the piece that is missing in seven-eighths is smaller than in five-sixths." Says Lampert: "This reveals more complicated thinking and a better understanding of symbols than the blind...
What do computer memory chips, soybeans and pork bellies have in common? All are considered commodities, since their prices float freely, based on supply and demand. With that in mind, the Pacific Stock Exchange of San Francisco announced plans last week to create a futures market for DRAM (dynamic random- access memory) chips, the tiny silicon storage units found in products ranging from computers to toasters. Prices in the $6 billion DRAM market have seesawed sharply over the past few years, swinging from $3 to $30 a chip, depending on type and availability...
...widespread pressure to lower the Continent's political as well as military tensions: "The time is right. Let Europe be whole and free." Turning specifically to the changing shape of some East bloc nations, Bush argued that their "passion for freedom cannot be denied forever. There cannot be a common European home until all within are free to move from room to room." But, he said, "let the Soviets know that our goal is not to undermine their legitimate security interests. Our goal is to convince them, step by step, that their definition of security is obsolete, that their deepest...
Upon graduation, we are left with the Harvard seal and the same circumstances we came from--the same family, the same financial situation, the same race. Once again, Horatio Alger's standard virtues--common sense, hard work and determination--will be the traits that get most of us anywhere. The Degree can only accelerate and ease the trek to come...
Wilson: Well, Matina is a scholar in avery relevant field. I am not a scholar of thesame kind. I have tried to do as much writing andthinking as I could, but it has more of aninstitutional focus...I think Matina and I havemany things in common and some real differences. Iwill draw very deeply on her knowledge but I won'ttry to replicate...