Word: learned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Gorbachev was here for a visit before the Warsaw Pact summit in Budapest two months ago. Did he come to teach or to learn...
...member of the Rogers commission has expressed anger at the belated revelations about the Challenger crew. "NASA is finally in the process of coming clean," he commented. "They even tried to stonewall us (the commission) on the tapes, telling us that they never release tapes. You are going to learn eventually that some of the crew lived longer than others, and that...
...media frequently lacks any sort of scientific discretion when covering the world of science. Reporters should be able to see past blanket press releases and ask questions, the right ones. If the media analyzes more, the readership will learn more and won't misunderstand discoveries...
...film is filled with heavyhanded symbols of societal oppression and the universal urge to free oneself from convention, and the director's major problem is that she cannot quite decide whether Mona is a person or a symbol. The fact that we learn nearly nothing about her personal history and that she rarely speaks or thinks would indicate that she is a metaphor, not an individual. But occasionally, Varda strays from her reservedly elegant direction and portrays Mona in human-dilemma situations. These are often very moving in themselves. For example, just as Mona begins to develop a believable emotional...
...symposia, intended to "introduce people to state of the art thinking at Harvard and in general," will teach poets about dentistry and dentists about poetry, as well as anything else they might want to learn about, from Odysseus to OPEC, from biology to Beethoven, 350th organizers said...