Word: following
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
There are two basic strategies which the student assembly could follow in trying to influence University officials. First, it may act as an outside pressure group. This alternative may be symbolically represented by a group of students on the steps of University Hall, reading a list of demands. Second, it may function as an inside pressure group. Symbolically, this approach is realized when some of the students on the steps walk inside, sit down with University administrators, and attempt to effect change through discussion and compromise...
...programs requires that the kids follow house rules and be in the house at certain hours for activities and counseling. It is an open program. The child may leave at any time...
WHEN JIMMY CARTER first took office, Mexican President Lopez Portillo journeyed to the White House in hopes of inaugurating a new era in U.S.-Mexican relations--an era founded on mutual respect and consultation. In the following two years, the United States has botched its chance to improve relations with Mexico by failing to follow the most basic tenets of diplomacy. For instance, without consulting Mexico, the U.S. varied tariffs on Mexican goods from month to month, making it impossible for Mexico to plan fo rappropriate levels of production...
...excerpts from the 1972 novel The Gods Themselves and the award-winning robot story The Bicentennial Man. For those who prefer Asimov's other talents, there are such tours de force as an introduction to binary numbers; an explanation, in language that even Dick and Jane can follow, of why it is possible (but not practical) to reverse the basic nuclear reaction and convert energy into matter; some witty Asimovian annotations on Shakespeare, the Bible and the poetry of Rudyard Kipling and Lord Byron; as lagniappe, he throws in a few limericks of the type An ability to dramatize...
...Follow The Leader