Word: constrainer
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...officers of the University, proctors are required to report disciplinary infractions by students in virtually all cases. Yet according to Noah S. Selsby '95, a proctor in Thayer, this obligation does not have to constrain the proctor/proctee relationship...
HORGAN: My faith is based on common sense, Paul, and on science itself. As science advances, it imposes limits on its own power. Relativity theory prohibits faster-than-light travel or communication. Quantum mechanics and chaos theory constrain our predictive abilities. Science's limits are glaringly obvious in particle physics, which, as Steven Weinberg describes [in the Visions issue], seeks a "theory of everything" that will explain the origin of matter, energy and even space and time. The leading theory postulates that reality arises from infinitesimal "strings" wriggling in a hyperspace of 10 (or more) dimensions. Unfortunately, these hypothetical strings...
...Most of the milestones of maturation are biological," Kagan said. "In the opening year, the growth of the human brain does constrain and modulate when language appears, when guilt appears, and when major emotions appear...
Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles lamentsthe "sad acts of our peer institutions...to moveto early decision programs" saying that attemptsto "capture students and constrain their choice[are] not beneficial...
...tobacco-related disease will kill half of them. But what about the rest of the world? Those new smokers--60,000 a day--could be on their own. Tobacco-state Democratic Senators Ernest Hollings of South Carolina and Wendell Ford of Kentucky have moved to strike language that would constrain exports and cost jobs in farming and manufacturing here...