Word: learner
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Genuine knowledge, on the other hand, is not anonymous. It changes the learner with the learning in a way mere data can't, the way knowing someone deeply always nurtures differences in the one who comes to know. It is not, perhaps, impossible, but it is very difficult, and there is little to be gained...
...favors, and for seeming to have no creative policies to compensate for the budget cuts. Pierce says that he deliberately has kept a low profile while learning his department. His supporters say that he is now about ready to make his move. For the moment, he gets a slow-learner...
...George Bush in Iowa, Sears' adversaries struck. His "imperial strategy," they complained, which had kept Reagan out of the fray, cost him the victory in the caucus. In advising Reagan to be less strident, Sears had made him more monotonous. Says Nofziger: "Reagan always was a slow learner. He just had to be hit by a two-by-four one more time. He woke up to the fact that he was not running his own campaign. He realized that Sears is cocky, pompous and arrogant...
...quick learner, Campbell wrestled a tougher match the next time the two went to the mat. The control situations rocked back and forth before the Crimson grappler almost pinned the veteran. After that the more experienced Barone relied on a conservative series of moves to score the takedowns that enabled him to post a 7-6 win over second-place Campbell...
...could easily have been richer and more firmly developed. But Tom Berenger and William Katt are persuasive as the younger look-alikes of Newman and Redford (the latter's mannerisms are even gently parodied by Katt). When the pair finally get down to robbing banks and trains, their learner's clumsiness strikes an endearing note...