Word: gathering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...result of all this animosity? Becker says that men and women have lost the capacity for honest communication. His theory is that the differences between the sexes stem from the time when men were hunters and women were gatherers. Thus men tend to focus on the singular, while women tend to gather numerous things around them. For example, when women shop, they will often search for absolutely nothing in particular which "they will know as soon as they find it." Men, on the other hand, will focus on buying one item ("Me want shirt. Me get shirt. Go home, watch...
...uses this thesis to explain why women gossip (they have to gather other people's business), why women flip channels (they have to gather the various shows on T.V.) and why women buy five shirts which look the same (they have to gather what they like). Men are often befuddled by these tendencies, just as women are frustrated by men's complete lack of understanding and cooperation. Perhaps what women call selfishness is just the hunter coming...
...more. The moral foundation of this argument, the group politics of ethnicity and gender, make it difficult to imagine a single party capturing the moral imagination of America. By splitting morality into a set of policy issues, such as inner-city development and national testing, the parties hope to gather up as many of these special interests as possible. But by trying to please every one, the parties may end up not pleasing...
Another crucial advantage, Steim says, is the ability to store data in digital form--a practice that has revolutionized the way scientists share and analyze findings. Back in the days when seismic waves were recorded on paper, "it took years to gather data--it was literally mailed from researcher-to-researcher," Steim says...
...focus now "is to gather basic knowledge of where there might be a like-lihood of earthquakes, but also to have enough instruments deployed so that the exact nature and extent of an earthquake, once it happens, can be accurately assessed," he says...