Word: constructed
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...well prepared defensively for Princeton's last possession. Coach Frank Sullivan has practiced what he calls, "the seven-second drill" with his team this year. The drill sets up a scenario directly analogous to what Harvard was faced with against Princeton. The idea behind the drill is to construct an aggressive defense without fouling when leading by one or two points with seven seconds remaining in the game...
...forecasts of voters' views, designers cut their cloth on the basis of what a buyer will want to see in the mirror three seasons hence. Currency traders act on a prediction of what will happen to the value of the yen in the next minute, while actuaries construct tables of risk on the basis of an expected rise in sea temperatures over the next 100 years. We cannot resist our urge to speculate on what will happen next, and when, and how much...
...showing other martial tricks. Generous donors are invited to visit the not-so-secret camps to see how their money is spent.) Phase two is designed to push each volunteer to his physical limit and cull the weak from the strong. In the final weeks, recruits use live ammunition, construct actual explosives and perfect ambush techniques. The final exam lasts three days. A group of trainees, sometimes as large as 100 individuals, hikes and climbs through high-altitude, wooded terrain for three days without food or sleep. They are not allowed to slow their pace except for a few naps...
...system of truth and knowledge, in the tradition of Berkeley and Hume, based on radical empiricism: that everything we can know about the world derives only from our sensory perceptions and that anything else we might think exists--ranging from physical objects to metaphysical beliefs--is merely a mental construct that may help predict our perceptions but cannot be known as objectively true; in Boston. His seminal 1951 essay "Two Dogmas of Empiricism" and 1960 book Word and Object built upon the works of such logical positivists as Rudolf Carnap and A.J. Ayer to place him just a notch below...
...election was over. They are not supposed to do this. Judges aren't supposed to write law because they aren't responsible to us in the same way legislators are. And when they do, it is no trifling matter. It is an assault on the barriers that free people construct to separate themselves from chaos. The barriers have been breached, and the justices have offered us a terrifying glimpse of chaos. Come to think of it, maybe conservatives--maybe everybody--should be enraged after...