Word: interpretative
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...Anything Got Done. No exceptional mind has ever been more elusive, harder to interpret, or more vulnerable to posthumous cliche. He was unquestionably the greatest observer of the real world in his time, and the breadth of his inquiries would be inconceivable in ours; but this is the same Leonardo who, on cutting a pen, scribbled as his customary test sentence some variant on the melancholy words, "Dimmi, dimmi se maifufatta cosa alcuna "- "Tell me, tell me if anything ever got done...
...federal eagle in Bonn's Bundestag one day recently and vigorously defended his relationship with French President Valery Giscard d'Estaing against an attack by an opposition Deputy. "It's true that we have friendly relations," boomed Schmidt, "but it would be a great mistake to interpret this, as the French press has done, as if it were a tandem. A tandem, the way I understand it, is a bicycle on which two pedal but only one steers...
...Environmental Protection Agency, defining precisely what constitutes "significant deterioration" posed the familiar dilemma of economy v. ecology. How strictly could the agency interpret the law without disastrous economic consequences? After months of searching for a solution, the EPA has just proposed that it avoid the issue by passing the buck to the states...
Active-Negative. Psychiatrists are outraged by such remote-control analysis. Protests Harvard's Dr. Robert Coles: "This is the most blatant kind of psychiatric reductionism. It's hard enough to interpret a person's motives or reasons even firsthand." Dr. Jacob Swartz of Boston, spokesman for the American Psychoanalytic Association, says: "To form a valid opinion, one should see the patient...
...Government, he was entitled under the Constitution to determine finally the scope of his own privilege. On the contrary, the main theoretical plank of the court's opinion was the assertion of its supremacy in all matters of the law. The Judiciary's power to interpret the law, the decision said, "can no more be shared with the Executive Branch than the Chief Executive, for example, can share with the Judiciary the veto power, or the Congress share with the Judiciary the power to override a presidential veto." Quoting directly from Chief Justice John Marshall's decision...