Word: modicums
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...teachers for his five-day course on computer science. Since many nonscientific fields in which they work call for statistical analysis, Mullish attempts to teach them the rudiments of computer programming while dispelling their "innate distrust" of the machines. Says Mullish: "I win them over by teaching them a modicum of contempt for computers...
...COMPARATIVELY EASY to hot wire an automobile, if you have the necessary equipment and a modicum of courage, or need, or the correct disdain for societal conventions, as it were. Bell had all that, plus the aching of an adolescent hand for a shift in his fingers, a lever with which to move the world...
...long history of organizing efforts in the California fields proves, if nothing else, that agricultural workers need the backing of a union to help them maintain a reasonable standard of living and a modicum of personal dignity in the face of organized agribusiness interests. The history of the last ten years shows, in addition, that the United Farm Workers Union represents the best chance for those workers to gain control over their work and their lives. The Teamsters, through intimidation, violence, corruption, racism and an unhealthy willingness to cooperate with the growers have proven themselves inadequate at best as representatives...
...wait-and-see process has not brought encouraging news-the reports on undergraduate education at Yale and Princeton left legacies of mostly failure, mixed with a modicum of success. Those results shed a considerable amount of light on what kind of results the task forces might obtain when they pass their general and specific recommendations to the Faculty...
Peterson stresses that Harvard has tried to develop three built-in mechanisms for getting a modicum of free speech...