Word: foraying
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Sesame Place's foray into sales of computer learning programs (see preceding story) appears to be a portent of the educational future. Another sign of the times is the launching, this week, of a new magazine, Electronic Learning. Put out by the respected educational publisher Scholastic, Inc., Electronic Learning is essentially a nontechnical guide to technical learning aids. Financed initially with $500,000, the magazine is being sent free to 50,000 educators and administrators responsible for buying equipment and trying to evaluate the rapidly expanding and confusing field of electronic learning devices. By devoting itself largely to information...
Ford said he was especially pleased with the defensive play during the game, and pointed in particular to the play of senior captain John Duggan in the stopper position. "Duggan was invincible-he was in the foray of the action at all times...
...concerns the efforts by modern man to quantify human intelligence--from the 19th century study of craniometry to current I.Q. testing. The attempt to measure intelligence, Gould argues, implies "a subtle and mistaken theory of limits whose essence is that the differences among people spring from genetic inheritance." The foray into the controversial terrain of intelligence testing reveals Gould's life-long belief in the indivisibility of politics and science...
President Reagan acknowledged as much the following day on a visit to the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Constellation off the California coast. "This foray by the Libyans was nothing new over the past couple years," he said. "They have frequently harassed our aircraft out beyond the [disputed] line in the Mediterranean. There have even been incidents of threats of fire. We decided it was time to recognize what are the international waters and behave accordingly." Pointing out that U.S. naval vessels periodically visit the Black Sea, while Soviet vessels sail the Caribbean, he continued, "We didn't go there...
...raid, the latest foray in the increasing warfare between Israeli forces and Palestinians, left Beirut in a state of shock. Lebanon's President Elias Sarkis called for a special session of the U.N. Security Council and summoned the American and Soviet ambassadors for separate talks. In the aftermath of the raid, a new wave of bitterness, directed not only at Israel but at the U.S. as well, swept through the Arab countries of the Middle East. In Beirut, newspapers referred to the attack as "the Apocalypse" and as "a massacre of Lebanese civilians," and described it as the bloodiest...