Word: conferency
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...room for the emotionalism that has suffused the debate over the RAF. Political scientist Kraushaar says Germany cannot effectively face new risks in the age of fundamentalist Islamic terror without first taming old demons. The best antidote to the ideological poison of terrorism, in short, may not be to confer special punishments on its practitioners, but simply to let the law take its course on a pair of aging murderers...
...million yuan (($500,000 at the 1966 exchange rate)),'' I told her. The Red Guards were impressed. The teacher was by now anxious to save the treasures, but she was afraid to put herself in the wrong with the Red Guards. They all went to the dining room to confer...
...aren’t here to accept or reject—we’re here to be amused. The more dazzling, personal, unorthodox, paradoxic your assumptions (paradoxes are not equivocations), the more interesting an essay is likely to be. (If you have a chance to confer with the assistant in advance, of course—and we all like to be called “assistants,” not “graders”—you may be able to ferret out one or two cosmic assumptions of his own; seeing them in your bluebook...
Even President Roosevelt weighed in on the decision, telling the Boston Evening Herald that he was “pleased as punch” with Lowell’s selection. A successful tenure in office would “confer an immense benefit on American intellectual life,” The Nation wrote...
...researchers look for relevant genes. He added that there would have been no way to get enough money from the federal government to purchase all the technology used in his research. “For the first time in history we have a realistic chance of finding genes...that confer risk for the most common kinds of Alzheimer’s,” Tanzi said. He said that every single gene discovered provides more insight into Alzheimer’s. “You can’t work on how to cure a disease until you find...