Word: layman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...prepared notes, Jefferson assailed what she called doctors' ignorance in confronting the moral dilemma of abortion. Jefferson referred to a statement in the Hippocratic Oath--"I will not aid a woman to procure an abortion"--and added, "unfortunately people in my profession know lens about legislature than the average layman...
...Soviets with breaking treaties banning chemical weapons, many might have believed it to be just another example of the Reagan Administration's excessive communist paranoia. But numerous other governments, scientists, and liberal officials like Solarz, have joined the chorus of denunciation, and the available evidence--at least to the layman--seems compelling that the Soviets are up to no good...
Horner explained that the trustees chose to rename South House after Cabot in part because of his earlier connections to the House. Cabre Hall, one of the six buildings which compare the Sollo complex, with named for Fill Layman Cabol, in cousin of Cabot's father...
...never lets an interview become repetitive. He thinks faster and more subtly than most other television reporters, yet always does his homework and never seems to be using his wit just to score points. Well versed in the details and jargon of Washington, he nonetheless talks about ideas in layman's terms; he often says that one must not overestimate the audience's specific knowledge or underestimate its intelligence. His most difficult feat is avoiding the twin pitfalls of overaggressiveness and overfamiliarity. Says U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Jeane Kirkpatrick: "He is tough enough to make it interesting...
...books on genes and DNA (short for deoxyribonucleic acid, the molecule which stores genetic information in the cell) have acted in the educational spirit of Al Vellucci. Both The Gene Age and DNA for Beginners are clearly written expositions which try to demystify molecular genetics for the layman; both, incidentally, include serious discussions of the Cambridge controversy over whether recombinant DNA research should be permitted...