Word: informativeness
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...have noted your account of President Quadros' meeting with Ambassador Berle. In view of the great respect and wide circulation enjoyed by your review I feel that as one of four persons present I should inform you that story is entirely incorrect. No incident or affront of any nature occurred during the interview. Foreign Minister Arinos was not even present...
...favors. In its bid for support, the National Council of Teachers of English has attempted to evaluate the current status of English teaching in its recent book, The National Interest and the Teaching of English. One of the book's primary purposes, according to its authors, is to "inform Congress...of the compelling need for an extension of the National Defense Education Act of 1958 to include English and the humanities. Unfortunately, Congress will probably not be moved to such action...
Members of the HDC have begun a new periodical in an effort to inform the University community and HDC members of the club's views...
...Maine's Thomas Reed, Speaker in 1889-91 and again in 1895-99, used to decide the business of the five-member Rules Committee with his two fellow Republicans without even bothering to meet with the two Democratic members. "Gentlemen," he would say, when it came time to inform the Democrats of the decision, "we have decided to perpetrate the following outrage." When a House rebellion in 1909-11 upset the autocratic rule of Speaker "Uncle Joe" Cannon, one of the victorious rebels' basic reforms was to deprive the Speaker of his place on the Rules Committee...
...South African government must be brought about from the outside, said Nkosi. "The government has prepared a bill which will make it virtually impossible to write anything but fiction in the newspapers." An uninformed populace cannot effect changes, he declared; it rests with journalists in the outside world to inform the people of South Africa' plight...