Word: interpretive
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Federal Register form was constructed so that each school was free to interpret it, and we felt that the way it was filled out made the discrepancy larger than it was," Costin Scalise said...
...these cases, Libertarians interpret the Constitution too strictly and at the expense of American interest. Selling the National Park Service to private developers would be an ecological catastrophe, and eliminating NASA, which explores the last great frontier, would be a shame simply in the knowledge we would lose...
...infections they pick up in America's hospitals. What made Strunk's case particularly significant was her husband's contention that Strunk died largely because the hospital staff members to whom she described her distress were not registered nurses but "patient-care technicians" who lacked the expertise to interpret her complaints. In 1994, the year of Strunk's operation, the Christ Hospital had turned to what management consultants call "patient-focused care," a system in which such bedside tasks as taking vital signs and answering call buttons are performed by unlicensed personnel who report to an R.N. Registered nurses must...
...fact, there is more than one way to interpret the neurotoxicity research. For one thing, observes Wurtman, animals don't necessarily respond to drugs the way humans do. The toxic dose of Redux in a monkey is only twice the therapeutic dose, but the therapeutic dose in a monkey is much higher to start with--as much as 10 times that of a human. It's therefore highly unlikely, he says, that a human user would...
...industrial. They typify the thinking that predominated in all the great book-religions until the transformations of the past 300 years. In these religions, knowledge was presumed to have come from a divine source and to be contained in sacred scriptures. Only a select few, it was thought, could interpret these works correctly, faithful to the divine will. In the great book-religions, these great books specifically, and language more generally, partook of the sacred; the path to truth and to divinity passed through particular men, the initiates...