Word: discussive
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...going over to my friends' houses for what I called the "please-pass-the-potatoes meal." I grew up with a single mother who was in graduate school, and eating together was not always an option. Now I make dinner a special time for my family to share and discuss the day's events...
...more socially isolated today than we were barely two decades ago. The latest evidence of that comes from a topflight team of sociologists who, after comparing national surveys in 1985 and 2004, report a one-third drop in the number of people with whom the average American can discuss "important matters...
...when movies in French, Swedish, Japanese, Italian and a half-dozen other languages set the medium?s standard for excellence. To be cinematically literate - "cinemate," to borrow a term Time proposed in a 1963 cover story heralding the first New York Film Festival - one had to be able to discuss the hidden narrative meanings and formal innovations of pictures like The Seventh Seal and Last Year at Marienbad. Foreign films had snob appeal and sex appeal. Or they did until American movies, over a few years in the 60s, discovered daring. Audiences were titillated and relieved. They could still feel...
...Then we went back out to the control area to discuss the cases and make plans. My resident had made the calls to book the cases. And there in front of the glaring bank of x-ray light boxes we uncovered a dark truth of American medicine - people are penalized for pulling themselves up from poverty, and often receive worse medical care as a result...
...offer as the price for agreeing to accept greater limits on its nuclear energy program than what is required under the Non-Proliferation Treaty. In particular, Tehran will demand security guarantees from the U.S. that Iran will not be attacked - guarantees the U.S. is currently reluctant even to discuss...