Word: linearly
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...responsibility for his actions runs through your blood." Eventually, Eshun comes to accept his past - and the contradictions he has struggled with in both England and Ghana. He draws invisible circles on a table for emphasis. "You realize that things don't have to have a kind of linear progression, things don't have to have a happy ending, they can just have a question mark. And that's O.K. ? It frees you up a little bit." He pauses, laughs: "I walk lighter...
...linear regression completed recently by the Committee on Advising and Counseling showed a direct negative correlation between the quality of advising and the number of students in the concentration, says Deputy Dean of the College Patricia O’Brien, who aso sits on the committee on advising and counseling...
...converge” is an inadequate, and indeed somewhat meaningless, descriptor for this rich story. Are the factors that participate in the triple convergence mutually reinforcing? Is the relationship among them linear and causal? How does the fall of the Berlin Wall, a singular historical event in 1989, “converge” with open-sourcing...
...pasture by your employer at any age at all. University of Minnesota sociologist Phyllis Moen tracks the breakdown of the "lockstep" life path in her book The Career Mystique. What does midlife even mean, wonders Moen, when life's trajectory is no longer linear? "I make fun of people who say that midlife is between 35 and 70, because what in the world is left...
...notion that an unacknowledged male ideology exists is not a frivolous one. Science and politics might be very different if women were more involved in the fields. Male thinking runs easily to the linear and abstract, and men's search for control does need examination. Beyond Power poses as such a work; instead, its 640 pages promise a rigorous analysis and deliver a series of cartoons. --By John...