Word: instructions
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...signs of online religious activity are everywhere. If you instruct AltaVista, a powerful Internet search engine, to scour the Web for references to Microsoft's Bill Gates, the program turns up an impressive 25,000 references. But ask it to look for Web pages that mention God, and you'll get 410,000 hits. Look for Christ on the Web, and you'll find him--some 146,000 times...
...NHTSA in the Carter Administration and now runs the watchdog group Public Citizen. "For the government to tell people it is O.K. to disconnect their air bags is a terrible idea that sends the wrong signal." Claybrook blames Washington and the car manufacturers for failing to instruct the public in basic matters such as never allowing small children to ride in front seats and wearing seat belts to make the air bags most effective...
...local government, network executives or tobacco companies--with no particular executive fiat lending them force. "Doesn't matter," says a Clinton adviser with obvious satisfaction. "After a while they all blend together. Bottom line: the President's signing important papers at his desk." So what if the papers merely instruct the Education Secretary to stock up on stamps and mail out truancy-prevention manuals to school districts? The image is first-rate...
There is one person close at hand who is ready and willing to instruct Wills in what is expected of him. "The Queen feels responsible and has great concern for him," says Bradford. Eton is close to Windsor--"he's right there in the bottom of her garden," as Bradford puts it--and William very frequently has tea with the Queen by himself on Sundays at 4 p.m. A car is sent for him, and they spend a couple of hours together. What do they talk about? Duties...
...from hard-hitting. "All of that," says Shumate, "had to be explained to a group of people who, no matter their professed commitment to democracy, were trapped in a classic Soviet mind-set. They thought they could win simply by telling big shots like the directors of factories to instruct their employees how to vote...