Word: considerations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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In this story-which some Dickens readers consider his greatest-an impoverished old woman, Betty Higden, talks to some callers about having given a home to a poor, gangling, half-witted boy who is known only as "Sloppy." She says that Sloppy is "a beautiful reader of a newspaper. He...
"Of course, some people have shown alarm, thinking that we are going too far, while others consider that what has been done is too timid." For the time being, the Premier seemed determined to keep to himself his own view of which course, between those extremes, Portugal should now take...
Domestic and Cosmic. "Consider for instance the small scene just underneath the curve of the ceiling between the Prophet Jeremiah and the Sibyl Persica. This triangular picture shows the family of Salmon, one of the ancestors of Jesus. Here, the child leans upon his mother's knee and watches...
Certainly, Americans do often seem to encourage crime. They refuse to pay higher taxes for better police and adequate courts. They decry rising crime, but consider what they tolerate: roughly half of all crimes are never reported; of those reported, 11% are never solved. As for "correctional" prisons, 30% of...
The main check on accuracy is competition. No one would consider faking a poll because it would immediately be challenged by the others. Pollsters want to be accurate--that's how they make their money.