Word: instruct
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...potential thieves. According to Geraldo Vidigal, a lawyer for the Federation of Brazilian Bank Associations, these armored guardhouses initially provided "a certain psychological deterrent," but ultimately proved useless. Once a robbery is under way, says Roberto Salgado, director of the Brazilian Association of Guard and Security Companies, "most banks instruct the guards not to shoot where there's a chance of losing a customer or a teller." Perhaps as a result, guards often find themselves forced at gunpoint to turn over their arms to the robbers, who have harvested hundreds of weapons so far this year...
...looks like a phone, but it's really a computer. By pressing buttons, I instruct a computer to do things it's programmed...
...other experts. They maintain that it is a waste of time to teach programming, because future computers will likely be fed their instructions in completely different ways. What is more, insists Karen Sheingold, director of the Center for Children and Technology at Manhattan's Bank Street College of Education,' 'the transfer of computer training to other areas is not necessarily automatic.'' One study of sixth-grade programmers from Cambridge, Mass., tends to bear Sheingold out: while 69% could instruct a computer to draw a 90° angle, only 19% could actually construct one on paper...
...seem strange that ideas discarded long ago can resurface today as "a new view"--and get accepted as such by liberal American scholars, the media and the larger population they influence and instruct. But on the question of how to define, prevent and reduce crime, the past reigns triumphant, while liberals look on in silence...
...such a point that the concern for human life will make abortion a socially and morally objectionable practice, as well as useless. In the meantime, responsible debate on the issue of abortion should continue; articles like Ms. Idelson's, however, only serve to mislead and confuse, instead of instruct and enlighten. Michael T. Matthews...