Word: content
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...departments accept the recommendation of the CUE, students taking courses which have a heavy enrollment of non-concentrators will be asked to evaluate the professors and course content...
...would not hurt McGovern's chances if Lyndon Johnson "came down" as well. Thus far the powerful former president seems content to sit back on his ranch and let his white hair grow. Although he announced early in the campaign that he was supporting the entire Democratic slate, Johnson has adopted a Moynihanesque policy of "benign neglect" as far as the presidential race is concerned. Perhaps Johnson feels that actively supporting a man who so vociferously opposed his administration's policies would be going just a little too far. Johnson may sense quite rightly that his own influence...
Claiming that most people are content with "immediate gratification," Skinner said that we must "make sure that current reinforcers are not so powerful that we overlook the future...
...trouble is that this new humanistic, holistic outlook on life is at odds with the content of many jobs today. Most white collar work involves elemental, mind-numbing clerical operations. Factory work is usually dull and repetitive, and too often dirty, noisy, demeaning and dangerous as well. It is a national scandal that last year on-the-job accidents killed 14,200 U.S. workers. In most auto assembly plants, a worker must even get permission from his foreman before he can go to the bathroom. The four-day week offers no real prospect for humanizing work; doing a boring...
...artists used a curious technique; with a tool made from hard rock, possibly quartz, they hammered or scraped groups of closely spaced small holes, 1 mm. to 5 mm. in diameter. Significantly, the most painstakingly executed samples of valley craftsmanship are found in the earliest engravings. Later artists were content with fewer and larger holes, and their work became blurred and uneven...