Word: latters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...articles and grant proposals roots out unconcious bias in scientific findings. But the recent case of research fraud involves something else: conscious bias. The system of self-regulation in the scientific community works well as a watchdog of the former, but simply was not made to deal with the latter...
...communications major at Washington State University in Pullman, he hoped someday to save the world from mundane advertising. As it turned out, the world was not ready for salvation when he graduated, so he played the banjo in a duo and worked at a music store. The latter job so depressed Larson that in 1976 he temporarily quit to try his hand at drawing. In two days he sketched a few cartoons and sold them (six for $90) to a local magazine. Two years later the Seattle Times began running him regularly, followed by the San Francisco Chronicle...
...inevitable question: Why would anyone want to know the Lord's Prayer in Maltese, the age at which John Stuart Mill began learning Greek (three) or any of the other variegated trivia Bryan has gathered? Answer: to enrich the mind, astound friends and amuse dinner-table partners. The latter objective receives its own 19-entry chapter, in which Novelist Virginia Faulkner's advice is cited: "I ask the gentleman on my right, 'Are you a bed-wetter?', and when we have exhausted that, I remark to the gentleman on my left, 'You know, I spit blood this morning.' " Hodgepodge...
When the final gavel thumped down at the auction up at John Connally's 7,300- acre spread near Floresville, Texas, last Saturday, 126 of his prized Thoroughbreds and quarter horses had been sold off for nearly $400,000. Two of the latter were the progeny of a proud champion, Dash for Cash. The . stallion's name was apt, for the auction came at a time when Connally himself is making a run for money. Numerous creditors are pursuing the former Texas Governor and U.S. Treasury Secretary for millions in unpaid loans on a host of flailing ventures. Connally...
...distinction between a valid field of study and a political platform is the ability of the former to allow for discussion and debate. The latter, like Women's Studies, is only a point of view or at most, "the study of a point of view by those who hold that point of view...