Word: maths
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Sent back to the drawing boards in June with orders to "firm up the math," Clinton's team quickly produced Putting People First (or PPF, as it is called), a 232-page paperback chock-full of numbers, all of which Clinton swore "added up." At its bottom line, the proposal promised to halve the nation's deficit by 1996, an assessment many considered sober and even courageous because it backed off Clinton's earlier intention to wipe out the red ink entirely by the end of his first term. But even this modified deficit- reduction promise owed little to Clinton...
...proposal would require 16 basic concentration courses--at least half from the Earth and Planetary Sciences, math or statistics, biology and chemistry departments...
This focus on answers rather than methods first became evident when Feynman led the math team in high school in Far Rockaway, New York. As undergraduates at M.I.T., he and a friend, Theodore Welton, re-created for themselves much of the physics discovered in the quantum revolution that had taken place in Europe during the 1920s. And although he shared the 1965 Nobel Prize for the theory of quantum electrodynamics with Julian Schwinger and Shin'ichiro Tomonaga, Feynman had an approach that was typically bizarre. Instead of using conventional calculations, he invented "Feynman diagrams," arrows and squiggles that mapped...
...houses (average-sized) and no other houses were requested, each by one-third of the first-year class. In this case, only 11 percent of students would get their first choice. This is obviously an extreme case, but it shows that the Undergraduate Council either didn't know their math or attempted to misrepresent the data. Even The Crimson was misled when it titled an article last week "44 Percent Would Get Top House Choice...
...students of today do not become competent in math and science, we will be doing a tremendous disservice to them," Reeves said...