Word: informativeness
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...hand is combing the air vigorously and he is erasing the pretty image of the gate-keeper's cottage and the sedentary notion of retirement. Fisher is good at resisting such facile conclusions or categorizations. When he entered Harvard Law School in 1948, he directed the registrar not to inform him of his grades, so as to "demote their importance." He is so adept at demoting the importance of such figures that he does not know his height, cannot recall when he began growing his moustache, and has trouble remembering his birthday...
...auditors surreptitiously presented to The Crimson by a member of the board of directors was not intended to be an indictment of anyone and should not be interpreted as such. I, as a member of the investigative committee, have not drawn any conclusions concerning this report, but as I informed you, at no time during the conference did I feel that the co-Secretaries General authorized the expenditures of any funds for totally unjustifiable expenses. Mr. DeWalt and Mr. Pellett were under a great deal of pressure during the last week before the conference due to numerous factors. For example...
Additionally, it seemed that Sanders would rarely inform the players about the reasons behind his moves. One day a player would start, the next he would inexplicably be the last man off the bench...
...international conflict, and even racism--are so familiar and tidily classified that we often diagnose them as the disease itself. Second, it is 'their' disease, not ours. They won't bother us by dying on our doorsteps. In fact, if the news industry decides it is better business to inform us about rapes, murders, and Jackie Onassis than the children in Bolivia who are being blinded and crippled by protein starvation, we need never hear about 'them' at all. Third, the population problem is bad politics. Anyone even vaguely familiar with demography knows that industrial development prompts massive fertility declines...
...what he calls "lasting peace," Ikeda last year was received by both Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin and Chinese Premier Chou Enlai. When he visits the U.S. this week to address his organization's 200,000 converts in the country, Ikeda will meet U.N. Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim to inform him that Soka Gakkai has collected 10 million signatures against nuclear armament...