Word: factualism
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...clash has been building ever since 1969, when the Rev. Jacob A.O. ("Jack") Preus was elected to a four-year term as president of the Synod. Preus, now 54, came in as a champion of conservative Synod members who believe staunchly in the "inerrancy" of the Bible, including its factual accuracy. Thus Preus and his followers hold that Adam and Eve were historical individuals - a position, they contend, that is vital to such doctrines as original...
...decision-making computer program three years ago, says Dr. William Schwartz, chairman of the department of medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine and spokesman for the group,* they discovered that little was known about how physicians arrived at their complex decisions. "Medical school emphasizes the acquisition of specific factual data," Schwartz says, "but it has paid remarkably little attention to the decision-making process." Thus he and his colleagues are analyzing how a doctor decides on such serious treatment as abdominal surgery...
...American in resistance against Nixon," he was "very like a Jew." Berrigan's remarks, his choice of audience, and his pose as an archetypal Jew infuriated Jewish leaders. Historian Arthur Hertzberg, noting that the Jesuit has never been to Israel, ticked off a number of factual errors made by Berrigan in an angry reply in American Report, the journal of Clergy and Laity Concerned, which had published the speech. "Underneath the language of the New Left," he wrote, "it is old-fashioned theological anti-Semitism...
...another assassination-say, a plot to kill the board chairman of a large corporation-the tedium of Miller's direction, the dry rot of Trumbo's writing, would quickly do it in. Instead, the movie is kept going by the baleful novelty of being about Kennedy. Whatever factual points the movie might have made are inextricably mixed up in trappings that would have seemed awkward even in a creaky TV series like Foreign Intrigue. The existence of a double for Oswald is not made even dramatically credible; yet the movie and the assassination theory it implies depend crucially...
...political science from Harvard (where he did his thesis on a favorite Kissinger subject, regional security arrangements) and who has served in Washington before. During the recent fighting, Egypt's propaganda was more realistic than it has ever been in 25 years of unrest and conflict. The generally factual reporting was due largely to Ghorbal's insistence...