Word: genericizing
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...According to the poll, Hispanic voters are backing Obama by a margin of 62 to 28 percent. This is not an unprecedented gap for a generic Democrat, but much had been written during the spring about whether Hispanics would vote for an African-American. Perhaps those analysts believed primary exit polls were a reliable prologue for the fall: Hillary Clinton had run ahead of Obama by a two-to-one margin among Hispanics in the states where exit polls were taken. Note the spread: Clinton usually won between 60 and 65 percent of Hispanics in those contests; Obama captured between...
...first Android-powered phones will arrive, Google says, in the second half of the year, possibly around the same time as the new iPhone. At a recent Google developers' conference, the company showed off, for the first time, a generic cell phone running the operating system. Touch sensitive, with an onboard, motion-sensing accelerometer that can also place a user precisely on a Google satellite map, the device resembles nothing so much as an iPhone. Android, explains Andy Rubin, Google's director of mobile platforms, is an open platform for developers à la Facebook; the code is theirs to modify...
...we’re going to tell math students, ‘You have to do EMR [Empirical and Mathematical Reasoning], it’s important that we provide a really advanced course.” Since all students will be taking classes in eight generic subject areas—as opposed to courses in the seven out of 11 categories furthest from their concentrations—they inevitably will be taking Gen Ed classes within their fields. Three humanities classes were also approved. Classics professor Kathleen M. Coleman’s Culture and Belief 17: “Institutional...
Since all students will be taking classes in eight generic subject areas—as opposed to courses in the seven out of 11 categories furthest from their concentrations—they inevitably will be taking Gen Ed classes within their fields...
...began to question his academic focus after receiving an “A” in a course taught by comparative literature professor Harry T. Levin ’33, though he had attended only two lectures. After he was able to rely on generic literary terms to write an exam essay on a book he had not read, Sheehan said he decided it was time for something more challenging...