Word: frequented
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...more orderly production. Speaking in Pentagonese, he says, "It would allow you to go out and facilitize in such a way as to maximize profitability." In other words, it would allow companies to buy materials and make investments in a more efficient way. Other complaints: the Pentagon makes frequent changes in project managers, so there is no continuity; inflation estimates built into program costs are always optimistic, and needless require ments and specifications are imposed...
Despite the recent guerrilla activity, the military situation in El Salvador is in effect a standoff. And, says one U.S. observer, "I don't see anything happening to move them out of that stalemate." The guerrillas complain of shortages of military hardware, though the Reagan Administration has made frequent accusations that significant numbers of weapons are being clandestinely supplied to the guerrillas by Nicaragua. According to some leftist sources, the main reason the insurgents failed to launch an expected offensive in mid-January was that their ammunition stocks could not sustain both a major attack and a longer-range...
...there are dangers in faculty unions at the university level. A frequent result of union presence is the protection of the mediocre along with the talented. Furthermore, union presence often creates an adversary situation between faculty and administration. Says Cal State's Dumke: "Under collective bargaining, working together as a community of scholars is just not possible." San Francisco State Biology Professor Lawrence Swan notes, "I see my job as teaching and research and scholarship. I try to shy away from politics...
...situation, a company can hope to catch the culprit only after his misdeed has taken place. Several companies have developed programs that enable auditors to probe the record of transactions on a computer for any irregularities. Such a program is designed, for example, to uncover any unusually large or frequent transfers of money. A leading producer of these audit programs is Cullinane Database Systems of Westwood, Mass. Its sales grew 66% last year to $29 million, and customers include the Chase Manhattan Bank, General Electric, Burger King and the American Bible Society. Computer audit programs are selling so swiftly that...
Sabom could discern no religious or other differences between patients who had NDEs and those who did not. The two groups contained roughly equal numbers of atheists and frequent churchgoers, college grads and high school dropouts. Even prior awareness of the existence of near death experiences did not predispose patients to have them. Nor did race, occupation or sex, though, curiously, women who had NDEs were more likely to recall seeing their loved ones...