Word: mimic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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offering too many lectures and not enough tutorials and discussions that allow students to think analytically, rather than simply mimic rote facts...
...beverages generally mimic all the trappings of premium beer, including the price tag of $3 or more per sixpack. Moussy, a nonalcoholic Swiss-made product, is bottled like a prestige import beer, complete with foil wrapper. White Rock Products, which distributes Moussy (pronounced moose-y) in the U.S., expects to sell 650,000 cases this year. The company is now running a special advertising campaign in the Midwest aimed at churchgoers who have given up alcohol for Lent...
...outcome, of course, is realistic only to the extent that the controllers were able to mimic what really would have been the Kremlin's reactions. There were inevitable postgame quibbles. Chayes is skeptical about the size of the Soviet invasion. Richard Pipes, who resigned from the real NSC staff a year ago and played a senior adviser, thinks the game's denouement "was a little deus ex machina. The Russians backed down very fast...
...technological skills, Japanese science still suffers from a copycat syndrome. The Japanese often feel it is better to mimic or borrow than originate. Says Electrical Engineer Michiyuki Uenohara, director of Nippon Electric's research labs: "The label of imitator is valid-Japanese research is derivative...
...intelligence. Over the past 25 years, the AI laboratories of such institutions as M.I.T., Stanford, Carnegie-Mellon and Scotland's University of Edinburgh have introduced word processing, video games, time sharing, robot control and advanced missile-guidance systems. Lately, AI research has concentrated on building systems that can mimic the brain work of skilled experts in such fields as oil exploration, battlefield command and computer design itself. Now Japan has made it a national goal to take its place within ten years among the world leaders in the emerging knowledge industry. "We no longer need chase the more developed...