Word: meaningfulness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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To the consternation of many journalists, however, the meaning of those quotation marks has been blurred by a three-judge panel of the U.S. appeals court in California. In a 2-to-1 vote, the judges this month dismissed a libel suit by psychoanalyst Jeffrey Masson against New Yorker writer...
But the beauty of Nice Work is that abstract literary concepts take on a real meaning in determining the lives and outlooks of the characters. Vic, for example, sees the feelings he develops for Robyn as "love," while Robyn says that love is "a rhetorical device," a "bourgeois fallacy" and...
A. The absence of any mercy, the absence of any humanity in his approach to the people, the masses, to anyone who did not follow him precisely. If anyone deviated the least little bit from him, like the Mensheviks, for example, he turned on them, he reviled them, he used...
Cases like the Yorks' are bound to multiply. The nation's population of frozen embryos exceeds 4,000, and state laws governing their use are often in conflict with one another or at odds with reality. In Louisiana, for example, a 1986 statute defines a frozen embryo as a juridical...
But human translators should have no fear that their jobs are imperiled -- at least for now. None of the new systems are yet able to take a page of text and render it unerringly into a different language without the aid of a bilingual editor who can fine-tune the...