Word: instructive
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Treating Rat Bites. However unconventional they may be in dress and tone, the Stoners do not entirely rule out the traditional. Their Scoutmasters -mostly young Viet Nam veterans-do instruct them in camping and field survival. This month the troop will journey to Camp Alpine, N.J., to hike, camp and cook out. But it is still the allure of survival in the city that seems most attractive to the Stoners. "I dig the Stoners because they teach us how to live in the city," says Ricardo Reed, 14. "They teach us how to treat rat bites and stuff like that...
Even when students' requests are refused, Dean Epps believes his office can make a positive contribution. During the past month some 350 undergraduates have come to see Epps with specific requests, many of which were turned down. As part of an academic community, Epps believes that he can instruct students who see him in the principles of administration, especially those whose requests are refused. Functioning as a "teaching office" in the concepts of administration, Epps wants to stress his principle of equity: Exceptions are allowable only up to the point that administration of the rule becomes unfair. Adherence to this...
...trade stocks over a private network of teletype machines linked to a computer. A client can consult Instinct's "offer file" for any of 1,550 stocks by punching keys on his teletype, which prints out a list. If a buyer spots an offer he wants, he can instruct the computer to connect him with a potential seller to dicker over the terms. To preserve the coveted anonymity, both parties are identified only by coded numbers. A deal is closed when a trader pushes the teletype's "accept" button. Instinct began operating last December, and this year...
...fervent pan-Arabism, however, Gaddafi is careful to maintain Libya's assertive independence. Though he has bought more than 100 tanks from Russia, he has refused a Soviet request to establish a naval base at Tobruk that would serve Russia's Mediterranean fleet. British advisers still instruct Libya's small navy, and a dozen Libyan pilots are being trained in France to fly the 110 Mirage jet fighters that Gaddafi bought from Paris. The French may be asked to run the former U.S. air force base near Tripoli...
...inescapable group, represent only a minority. And even within the minority, the beginning of a new rapport between the generations is taking place. The phenomenon is still scattered but nonetheless remarkable. It involves a mutual search for understanding in which it is the young who influence and even instruct...