Word: factual
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...teach in a way which is "more precisely tailored to the one student you are teaching." He says he uses the opportunity to talk to the student rather than to lecture, describing his method as "Socratic browbeating. I want to make sure that he's gotten some of the factual information, then we explore the interpretive aspects...
...Reagan's dismal (and revealing) round one performance was disturbing, the case with which he regained his good standing was nothing less than horrifying. Despite an otherwise mediocre performance riddled with factual errors and lesser mental lapses, the president redeemed himself with a single one-liner in the second debate...
...despite widespread criticism, the conventional system of medical education--in which the first two years stress factual knowledge, while the last two emphasize clinical skill--has gone virtually unchanged for 30 years. Some critics have called it dehumanizing and disjointed, charging that too many physicians turned out through the traditional route have been insufficiently prepared to handle patients in a caring and effective...
...that is why Charles Perry's book is as frustrating as it is exciting, a history of a revolution in thought that can give one a factual knowledge of the Haight-Ashbury movement but through which the reader can only vaguely grasp what IT was all about...
...police, and comments only on student actions. Moreover, there are indications that in addition to being one-sided, the CRR's report may actually have ignored or covered up testimony about improprieties committed by Harvard officials at last spring's events. Some students have even charged that there are factual innacuracies in the report regarding their activities as well as those of administrators and police. Others have alleged that the grounds on which they were convicted are vague and inappropriate. Unfortunately, because the CRR hearings--comprising 60 hours of testimony--took place behind closed doors, there is little chance that...