Word: interpreting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...some of the actual participants interpret things differently. In August, two Mondale supporters, one of whom serves on the commission, wrote an op-ed piece in the Post calling for, among other things, a rule guaranteeing uncommitted positions to a large number of elected officials. Scott Lang, one of Kennedy's representatives on the panel, says bluntly. "They believe that would help Mondale. Their motivation should be what's better for the party, not what's better for a candidate. That's the way we're approaching it," he adds...
...haven't warranted much of a reaction from schools. Bowdoin College in Maine remains the only prominent institution that does not require the SAT for admission. Elsewhere, administrators point out that the exam has never been more than one aspect of their decision-making processes, that they interpret scores only as rough estimates (thus allowing for small increases resulting from special coaching), and that the SAT is "close enough to standardized," in one official's words, to provide a check on differing high school grading scales. "There will always be disparities in life," says Lawrence J. Momo, Columbia University...
...effort to remove them, apparently confident that only a small band of hard-core "crazies," as they are called by many Israelis, will hold out until the end, and that his troops can handle the situation. Prime Minister Menachem Begin himself has said nothing, which some people in Yamit interpret as a signal that he may stall on the withdrawal. Indeed, there is a growing belief among many observers that some officials are quietly encouraging the protesters. Meanwhile, however, about 90% of Yamit's residents have accepted cash compensation for their property, which in some instances has been...
...Sperry, a professor at the California Institute of Technology. During nearly 20 years of collaboration, Hubel and Wiesel discovered the method by which the retina transmits information to the brain. The Nobel Assembly cited the scientists' work as a "breakthrough in research into the ability of the brain to interpret the code of the impulse message from the eyes...
...vital question: What level of benefits does a citizen have a right to expect from his Government? Both liberal Democrats and conservative Republicans could probably accept Abraham Lincoln's answer -Government ought to undertake only those functions that individuals cannot perform for themselves-although they would surely interpret it differently. Certainly a decent, and especially an affluent, society must ensure some very basic rights: no one should starve, or die for lack of medical attention. Beyond that, Government should strive to improve the lives of its citizens, to the extent that...