Search Details

Word: considerable (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

When, for instance, does a urinary-tract infection become a pyelonephritis (an infection involving the kidneys and ureters)? There's no clear-cut answer. A computer might remind the doctor that the hospital stands to make many thousands more if he simply clicks on pyelonephritis, the more serious condition. Or...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wrong Prescription | 3/26/2009 | See Source »

On the discussion forum College Confidential.com a February thread debating whether applying for aid will hurt a student's chances of getting admitted has been viewed nearly 25,000 times. At Skidmore, one figure suggests the answer is yes: students of color, who disproportionately applied for financial aid, made up...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Colleges Face a Financial-Aid Crunch | 3/26/2009 | See Source »

If you still aren't convinced that your doomsaying ways can ever be changed, consider this: only about 25% of a person's optimism may be hardwired in his genes, according to some studies. That's in contrast to the 40% to 60% heritability of most other personality traits, like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Primer for Pessimists | 3/26/2009 | See Source »

The thing about being optimistic, though, is that it takes hard work - and that's a drag. It's an active process, say psychologists, through which you force yourself to see your life a certain way. Indeed, the leading optimism and happiness experts consider themselves born pessimists. But if they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Primer for Pessimists | 3/26/2009 | See Source »

"We consider that the United States is mistaken, protectionist and clearly violating the treaty," Mexico's Economy Secretary, Gerardo Ruiz Mateos, told a news conference on March 16. "To decide to protect their own transport sector, they have decided to affect the competitiveness of our countries and of the region...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obama's 'Trade War': No Truck with Mexico | 3/25/2009 | See Source »

Previous | 180 | 181 | 182 | 183 | 184 | 185 | 186 | 187 | 188 | 189 | 190 | 191 | 192 | 193 | 194 | 195 | 196 | 197 | 198 | 199 | 200 | Next