Word: informativeness
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Promoting more vigilance in confiscating fake IDs and harsher punishment for errant students, Evans’ program will encourage colleges to inform students’ parents of their drunken malfeasance, thus effecting a double punishment—one at the university level, the other in the form of parental wrath. The threat of this retribution has caused many from Boston-area colleges to question BPD’s logic: why should someone’s student status confer upon them extra punishment? Young professionals’ parents aren’t notified of their drunken antics, yet they presumably exist...
Then there are cases like that of an Iowa social worker who had guardianship over her mother, who was in a persistent vegetative state following a reaction to iodine. After three years, the woman and her sister agreed to remove their mother's feeding tube, but they did not inform their aunts for fear the women would try to stop them. "To this day, they don't really talk to us," says the social worker...
...Inform me how I can get important letter to you. Urgent. Jafsie...
Darkness. Silence. Suddenly a blinding array of bright blue lights blast the eager crowd into “Next Exit.” Smooth chords on the keyboard entice lead singer Paul Banks to inform the audience of their new fate: “We ain’t going to the town, we’re going to the city...
Before the idiot box was idiotic and the boob tube gained its, well, boob, there was truth on television. The vast wasteland was sprinkled with islands of worth: news programs, those last bastions of truth in a swirling sea of superficiality, were always there to inform, frankly and objectively. Americans could sleep peacefully knowing that the Rather-Brokaw-Jennings triumvirate could always be counted on to emerge from the evening twilight, ready to tell an anxious nation how to think and what to believe...