Word: interpretations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Melendez's report suggests that there is some confusion over whether students currently have full voting rights. Offutt said if the director of the Core Curriculum does not give council members voting rights, he may have to ask the secretary of the faculty to interpret the Core committee's legislation. If the situation isn't resolved to his satisfaction, Offutt said the council might pose the issue to the full faculty...
...feel offended by pornography and who are horrified by the ever more graphic and violent images put forward by the multibillion dollar, and growing, pornography industry. However, if you read Proposition 3 more carefully, you will find its definition of pornography is excessively vague and open to idiosyncratic interpretations. Furthermore, it implicates in discriminatory practices anyone who engages in a wide variety of activities, including "trafficking" ("to produce, sell, exhibit, or distribute") and "forcing pornography on a person." What this means is that someone who chooses to interpret certain words or images put forward in books, magazines, pictures, or speech...
...through it, the crystal's atoms diffract, or scatter, the rays, producing fuzzy spots of varying intensity on film. The resulting diffraction pattern looks something like strings of beads. Although each type of crystal creates a distinctive design, the patterns are extremely intricate and were once very difficult to interpret. To get beyond the primitive and tedious practice of scrutinizing the film, Karle and Hauptman contrived a complex statistical formula that takes the position and brightness of the separate spots and "reconstructs" them into a three- dimensional picture of the crystal. Straightforward as this sounds, the equations were so daunting...
Each show will be divided into several segments, ranging from interviews with special guests to the "world news report." The news report will star reporter Robert Hanning '87 who will "analyze and interpret news events such as 'Two--headed baby alive and well," explained co-host, Randy Weiner '87. "That's where the community service comes in. People don't have time to read the paper," he added...
...good deal more than play video games. At the booth of a company called Intellicorp, engineers from Ford Aerospace were showing off a program for troubleshooting balky satellites. At the Apollo Computer display, a firm called Visual Intelligence had a system to help nuclear-plant operators quickly interpret the kind of instrument readings that confused technicians at Three Mile Island. On a Digital Equipment computer, newspaper specialists from Composition Systems exhibited a program that lets editors accommodate late- breaking news by reducing from hours to minutes the time it takes to lay out and print a new edition...