Word: establishing
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There is no reason to belive that Ford is insincere in his insistence that teaching capacity is an important consideration. It was his idea to establish a committee to apply technology to teaching. He has promoted the use of audio-visual aids, including language tapes and visualized computer techniques, both in and outside the classroom. Visual arts courses, expository writing, composition emphasis in some music programs, and experimental General Education courses have all attracted his interest...
...surprisingly, history rarely mentions conciliators: man's sense of the dramatic is more aroused by violence than by the "effort to establish harmony and good will." Among U.S. heroes, George Custer outranks William Penn, who pacified Indians with kindness rather than carbines. How many American boys would rather win the Nobel Peace Prize than the Medal of Honor...
...Edinburgh, 15-year-old Alex Smith, Europe's first lung-transplant patient, died last week. Doctors at Edinburgh's Royal Infirmary had told the boy's father that the new lung would require at least twelve days to establish itself. Before it could, young Smith's remaining lung, also damaged by swallowed weed killer that prompted the transplant, collapsed...
Many reporters would disagree. There is no formula-and there can be none-to establish how far a newsman should be allowed to go in quest of the truth. Each reporter must decide for himself whether the importance of the facts he is after justifies the compromises he must make to get at them. But there are moral as well as practical limits. In the long run, journalism cannot be based on habitual deceit-if only because a reporter who practices it would lose both his credibility and his sources...
...bishops invited to the convention even sent his regrets. Rome seems to view the federation with some foreboding. "We are in sympathy with the priests' wishes," said a Vatican official, "but it would be a disruptive element within the church if all groups were permitted to establish national movements and then bring pressure on the church as a whole...