Word: different
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Serious Weaknesses. McNamara observed -before the Kwajalein test that it would be conducted under "controlled conditions that differ substantially from actual combat." In last week's test the onrushing Atlas ICBM actually carried a transmitter to clue the slender, 48-ft. Nike-Zeus bird in on its target.* In an actual attack, an ICBM might spew out "decoys" designed to baffle the tracking radar-as was not the case last week-or an ionospheric nuclear blast might knock out the radar altogether. "As advanced as the Nike-Zeus system is-and we believe it to be quite advanced...
...been argued that the variety of educational backgrounds which an entering class brings to Harvard forces the college to offer General Education courses that differ in prerequisites as well as content. This is all the more reason for preserving a common element in science instruction. The strongly science-minded student will move directly into course work with a Department; the humanist may not look for a course to waken his scientific interest. Consequently science in the program is most important to freshmen who arrive uncommitted, and particularly for those who come from schools where science was neglected. Their General Education...
...unemployment effects within import-competing industries, the opinions of organized labor seem to differ substantially from those of Mr. Schwartz. Does the editorialist choose to ignore the unions' general support for the Bill? Or does Mr. Schwartz feel he is more qualified to evaluate labor's interests than are labor's spokesmen...
...Individuals differ in the degree of permeability or affinity to the elements in the social and cultural milleu in which they find themselves and to which they are subjected. It is the concatenation in the particular child of factor-trait influences from divergent sources that determines whether, at a certain degree of pressure, resistance to anti-social expression will break down...
...public funds deposited in banks to giving epileptics the right to get drivers' licenses. He was re-elected three times and became majority leader of the house. Says he of himself and his father: "I do not think there are any major areas where our views would differ. On the other hand, changing times also give different aspects to different problems...