Word: context
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pigsticking and jousting. Alvin Owens, vice president of San Diego's Decision Science, Inc., bristles at the mere mention of it. "It's a step backward," says Owens. "I think it's extremely unfortunate for people to think about soaring and hang-gliding in the same context. It's like comparing the Soap Box Derby to the Indianapolis 500." The feud is particularly sharp at Torrey Pines, where all hands compete for precious air space in one of the country's best-known updrafts. Even the most adamant partisans, however, seem willing to glide...
...firm requires specific capacities in a worker, or a university department needs certain capabilities in its students, an I.Q. screening is not helpful and justified; but it should be clear that what is being tested then is not human intelligence, but faculties needed for specific tasks. Even in these contexts, but more critically in the context of school testing, it is important to evaluate the results of an I.Q. test in the light of the previous experience of the person entering the test situation: his mood, attitudes, motivations, anxieties affect his performance and depend on emotional and cultural factors which...
...than pamphlets bound between hard covers. Belfrage's book resembles Kubek's not only in its vituperative writing style, but more importantly, in the questions it chooses to ask and not ask. By writing a narrative of the American purge trials, Belfrage has opted to remain within the intellectual context of the fifties. Was Owen Lattimore the number one Soviet espionage agent in America? Did Alger Hiss maneuver the Yalta sell-out? Did the denial of a passport to W.E.B. DuBois uphold the principles or security of this nation? No. Granted. But...so what...
Historians have rightly insisted that U.S. expansionist efforts cannot be explained along the lines of a strict cost-benefit analysis of businessmen's profits. Social conditions in the late 19th century just as domestic unrest today established the context within which expansion might be pursued...
...result, more and more of the world's mass culture is tied up in corporations large enough to dominate economic and political life of developing nations. In the context of imperialism, the business of culture is just one more business...