Word: dissective
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...problems, which are in turn broken down into tiny problems, which theoretically solve themselves. Instead of examining isolated events or phenomena as part of a general trend or linking them as illustrations of a broader theory as the Humanities and Social Sciences do Computer Science teaches students to do dissect problems into discrete components...
...post-mortems dissect last year's Bendix takeover fiasco
...waiting is over. While some, like Marilyn French (The Women's Room), continue to dissect the feminine psyche and situation, a growing cadre of women has enlarged and honored the literary mainstream. Their books, characterized by less dogmatic treatments of both men and women, and with themes expanded to include family, children and political events, are what New York City Literary Agent Lynn Nesbit calls "postfeminist writings...
...concoct mock-academic theories about Casablanca. One can lay the sweet thing down on a stainless-steel lab table and dissect it with instruments Freudian or anthropological. A doctoral thesis might be written on the astonishing consumption of alcohol and cigarettes in the movie. At that rate, everyone would have died of cirrhosis and lung cancer...
...search for a common thread among these widely diverse groups has confounded researchers from coast to coast. When AIDS was confined to the gay community, says Curran, "our efforts were concentrated on trying to dissect out life-style differences." Various sexual practices and the use of amyl nitrite "poppers," inhalants widely used by homosexuals to enhance orgasm, were among the subjects investigated. The life-style theory does not, however, explain the emergence of AIDS in nongay populations. Most researchers now believe that an infectious agent is involved in AIDS. This agent is probably transmissible in a variety of ways, through...