Search Details

Word: good (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

Another puzzling thing about the supernova was there were no radio waves or X-rays emitted from it. "This would not be so odd, though, if there was something inside the other remnant," Kirshner says. "There's a good circumstantial case for a second supernova inside the other supernova. If it's really true it's the only case we know about...

Author: By Rebecca A. Jeschke, | Title: Cosmic Conflagrations | 1/20/1989 | See Source »

Hirsch maintains that reading skills are limited to topics the reader has encountered, so specific information must be drilled into students' heads. He uses the example of standardized reading comprehension tests: "If a young boy knows a lot about snakes but very little about lakes, he will make a good score on a passage about snakes, but a less good score on a passage about lakes....If you know about lakes and snakes, and rakes and cakes, you will have [a high] reading ability...

Author: By Michael R. Grunwald, | Title: Culture Schlock | 1/20/1989 | See Source »

...event, art projects. Nothing so regular and ordinary, with certifiable artistic merit and benefit to the community as a literary magazine deserves consideration. That is unless you are just starting up, rather than, as in the case of Padan Aram, you have a history of putting out one damn good magazine...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fund the Arts | 1/18/1989 | See Source »

...past eight years have been not an era of good feelings, as Reagan would like us to believe, but an age of amnesia. With his sweet voice, Reagan has numbed the nation. His speeches, the last of which, his "farewell address," took place last Thursday, have been trips to the dentist's office. Get the novocaine ready, Nancy, I'm speaking to the country tonight...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No More Shut-Eye | 1/18/1989 | See Source »

...human volunteers, instead. If animal experimentation were eliminated and scientific research were hurt as a consequence, the probable increase in human suffering and death would not be a big problem for PETA. "We don't have a right to exploit animals under some notion of 'human good," said Burnett...

Author: By Joshua M. Sharfstein, | Title: Of Mice and Men | 1/18/1989 | See Source »

Previous | 338 | 339 | 340 | 341 | 342 | 343 | 344 | 345 | 346 | 347 | 348 | 349 | 350 | 351 | 352 | 353 | 354 | 355 | 356 | 357 | 358 | Next