Word: manual
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...without conclusive evidence or an international mandate by the U.N., the blood of innocents will be on those voters' hands. Putri Norlisa Najib London Beslan Postmortem In view of the school siege in Beslan, Russia [Sept. 20], it is high time for us psychologists to seriously consider designing a manual on how to handle hostage-taking situations. Such a manual should be based on a very careful study of all the minute details of the experiences that surviving hostages have gone through. There should also be an extensive analysis of terrorist behavior in such situations: weaknesses, mood swings, what triggers...
...others, he quotes them properly and generally cites them to the original sources (Mark Twain, Palestine Royal Commission, etc.) [Finkelstein’s] complaint is that instead he should have cited them to the secondary source, in which Dershowitz may have come upon them. But as the Chicago Manual of Style emphasizes...
Harvard’s Writing With Sources manual, which is distributed to all undergraduates when they enter as freshmen, offers a crystal-clear definition of plagiarism: “passing off a source’s information, ideas, or words as your own by omitting to cite them; an act of lying, cheating, and stealing...
...Cross, as both a player and as an assistant coach. And now, firmly entrenched as head coach of a program that has had more than its fair share of troubles, he’s learned how to handle something they just don’t cover in the coaching manual...
Bush is the first to say "I'm not a textbook player. I'm a gut player." While he reads history like a user's manual--he has finished Ron Chernow's biography of Alexander Hamilton and is now on to one about Charles Lindbergh--Bush typically seems less curious about people's arguments than their motives for making them. That has its drawbacks. When the French warned about the potential hazards of occupying an Arab country--lessons learned from their colonial history--Bush's focus on their motives for avoiding war left little room for consideration of their arguments...