Word: forthing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...party in a bravely decorated basement apartment off Mount Auburn St., a former junior faculty member at Harvard clutches the obligatory glass of white wine and holds forth with some passion on the subject of how poorly Harvard treats his class...
...Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the U.S. was urging adoption of an American-built MLS in which the electronic funnel is created by two narrow radio beams-one sweeping horizontally, the other vertically. From the varying time intervals between the aircraft's interception of these rapid back-and-forth sweeps, an on-board computer can determine precisely where the plane is in the funnel, how steeply it is descending and how far it is from the center of the runway...
...report on the company's labor practice and policies in South Africa and the extent to which they meet the criteria for such practices and polices as set forth in 1 above, including in that report the following...
When we think of science as an activity, we think of a process involving the steps of observation, interpretation, formulation of an hypothesis (and a means of testing it), further observation and so forth. If successful, the end result is an expanded understanding of some principle or law governing the area under investigation. Occasionally even a new law is discovered. In this sequence it is ultimately individual scientists who make the steps, and the degree of objectivity is judged from the extent to which other scientists can repeat the process to arrive at the same conclusion or understanding...
...issue is less complicated than some members of the Harvard Corporation would make it seem. The University has consumed more than five months in a spate of correspondence, largely cosmetic open hearings, reports and committee meetings. These actions have repeatedly brought forth the same basic set of facts to the Corporation. The University's indecisiveness while hundreds of South African blacks face arbitrary imprisonment or even death by starvation demonstrates that the Corporation is either seriously, if honestly, misguided, or is engaged in a censurable policy of delay and obfuscation...