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There were four men behind the door I slid open, but they waved me in vigorously and it was kind of a plush cranny, the likes of which I hadn't come close to in a while. None of them spoke English, but three of them prodded snatches of inexact but useful French out of a sullen type with a mustache, and with the additional aid of maps and newspapers, we managed a make-shift dialogue. We may not have interpreted every word in the same way, but I'm pretty sure we set a few facts straight. First...
...today. Short-range forecasting has improved enormously in recent years, even though squalls occur on days when the weatherman insists the precipitation probability is near zero. And despite great advances in techniques and technology, the discipline of climatology-the study of long-range trends in weather-is still an inexact science, to say the least. Climatologists still disagree on whether earth's long-range outlook is another ice age, which could bring mass starvation and fuel shortages, or a warming trend, which could melt the polar icecaps and flood coastal cities...
...fear of Success" measure is not "loose" and "inexact." It was very carefully derived by comparing the thoughts of women who back off from competition with men as compared with the thoughts of those who do not. People who score high in these thoughts--whether men or women--seem to be afraid of asserting themselves or winning in competition for fear of the negative consequences that may follow from winning. In fact research has shown that women who fear success in this sense do not follow careers even though they may have ample opportunity to do so--such...
Critics of the fear-of-success theory say that women do not avoid success, but rather failure. The McClelland and Horner thesis, they say, is inexact in distinguishing the difference...
...embattled cult. NBC Commentator Edwin Newman's Strictly Speaking, a catalogue of ugly Americanisms and verbal atrocities, was 26 weeks on the bestseller lists. A Pulitzer prizewinning writer, Jean Stafford, has been conducting a crusade of sorts against what she sees as the encroaching barbarism of inexact and fraudulent language...