Word: micro
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...numerous settings where lies may be told: in a police station, perhaps, at a press conference, on the speaker's platform at a political meeting, or in the bedroom of a married-or unmarried couple. The tape is fed into a machine that measures muscular micro-tremors in the voice, faint quivers that come from the muscles in the voice box and cause slight changes in pitch. Changes are not detectable by ear, but they can be traced on a chart by a pen linked to the machine. It is the capacity to detect and reproduce these tremors-apparently...
...schools may improve with straightforward changes in practice and to what degree boarder issues of race, inequality, income distribution, and public finance will have to be faced before more fundamental change is realized. Schools Where Children Learn centers on what Featherstone, in an interview, called the "micro-issues" of reform, changes on the level of the school and classroom, although both his commentaries and the articles themselves have strong implications on a macro-level...
...from being a frontier-oriented problem-solving nation, America has become a nation which eschews practice for theory. This trend in graduate schools away from classroom experience--as well as the persistence of state legislatures and teachers' unions in making entry into the profession difficult--obstruct the kind of micro-reform that could be going on on a much broader level...
...show that was taped for airing this week features a sketch with ex-Footballer Jim Brown, now a movie actor. Geraldine, dressed up as a "Chicken Delicious" delivery girl in a micro-mini and lace-up boots, delivers an order to Brown. After announcing the product-"No fancy ribbons on our meat; what you see is what you eat"-she tries to persuade Brown to find work in the movies for her boy friend Killer, never visible on the stage but always present in her thoughts. "What is he doing?" Brown asks. "He don' do nuthin'," Geraldine replies...
...Compact Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary. Complete text reproduced micro-graphically. 4,1 16 pages. Oxford, 2 vols. With magnifying glass, $75. The complete O.E.D. took more than 70 years to prepare and runs to 13 volumes because it gives sample quotations, going back farther than William the Conqueror, showing how words have changed color through the ages. Before becoming a game, Badminton served variously as the name of an English country estate and a cooling drink. As late as 1848, "snoop" meant "to appropriate or consume dainties in a clandestine manner." The word doom was a synonym...