Word: informativeness
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Watch these statesmen in motley, clowns on the stump, and Limbaugh's mud track can look like the high road. He meets his own challenge -- to inform and entertain -- and those who don't get it are always free to tune out. But even some righteous liberals are closet Rushophiles, because the man is so good at what he does. And knows it. And tells you, in a voice whose every syllable bespeaks a 25-year apprenticeship in radio oratory, without fear of repetition or contradiction. If vainglorious were two words, he'd fit both of them...
Students would not be allowed to take the exam questions home until the last day. Teaching fellows could be present throughout the first day of exams, when they could debug confusing questions. On the other two days, they could inform students of any problems at the start of the period. Their presence throughout the first exam would also provide some incentive for students to take the exam on the first...
Stanford University offers an American studies major, which offers classes that focus on issues of ethnicity. Councils on the study of Mexicans in the U.S., Asian Americans and Native Americans help to inform students about cross-listed courses in other departments...
...group of theater-goers are watching a movie. The movie stops and the lights come up to the chagrin of the audience. We hear a voice over the intercom speaking in Spanish, which is soon drowned out by the monotonic English translation of the day's latest news: "To inform the people of Argentina that Eva Peron, spiritual leader of the nation, entered immortality at 20:25 hours today...
...more combative in their tactics. "We're becoming nasty, and I love it," says Abbey Meyers, executive director of the National Organization for Rare Disorders. The new generation of patient advocates has borrowed the medical activism first mastered by the AIDS lobby, in an effort to educate patients, inform physicians, influence politicians and pressure the pharmaceutical industry over everything from development to government approval. They are responsible for redirecting entire branches of biomedical research -- prompting some scientists to warn of wasteful, dangerous detours that will end up hurting the very patients the advocates aim to save...