Word: interpretive
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...reading the entire Bible literally has not been a dominant practice among Catholics through much of the 20th century. Asked about the Pope's statement, Father Peter Stravinskas, editor of the 1991 Catholic Encyclopedia, said, "It's essentially what Augustine was writing. He tells us that we should not interpret Genesis literally, and that it is poetic and theological language...
...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...