Word: mottoes
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...Britain and the U.S., the great age of quantification had begun. An unforeseen consequence of industrialized democracy had been the mammoth increase in the measurement and survey of all sorts of things. Galton relished this new flood of data--"Whenever you can, count" was his motto--and eventually became absorbed in studying the mathematical distribution of what he called "natural ability" among a sample of British subjects. Galton thought natural ability could be tracked down by reading the biographical sketches of eminent Britons in handbooks and dictionaries. When he did so, he discovered that a disproportionate number of these worthies...
...nearly every member of Congress professes some form of traditional faith and that no atheists ever run for public office because they would automatically lose. They call our attention to events like Congress' vote in the 1950s to put the word "God" onto our paper money, into our national motto and into our Pledge of Allegiance; the Congress and President Reagan's formal declaration that 1983 was the "Year of the Bible"; and the recent increase of the Religious Right's stranglehold on the Republican party's leadership. But the quick mind of the observant conservative will not be fooled...
...text was more than run-of-the-mill: it was targeted. Wishnatsky emphasized his Harvard connection throughout the letter by drawing attention to his career as an undergraduate, his Ph.D. in political science and the Veritas motto. In his e-mail message, Wishnatsky wrote that he remembered Harvard as "morally sick," and expressed fears that...
...like the other Mike: so heroic at his work that even an overzealous prosecutor like Smaltz would forgive him a few nitpicking ethical lapses. As Espy ruefully admitted last week, that was a miscalculation. He said, "I should have tried to be more like Jackie." That's a good motto for all public officials, even if they're not black...
Bechtel was, and remained throughout his nearly 70-year career, a visionary whose imagination was fired by grandiose projects--the more seemingly impossible the better. His motto, endlessly repeated, was "We'll build anything for anybody, no matter what the location, type or size." He and his company built pipelines and power plants in the forbidding reaches of the Canadian Rockies, across the Arabian desert and through South American jungles, as well as in daunting places like downtown Boston, where the Central Artery project unfolds today. His portfolio even includes an entire city (Jubail, Saudi Arabia). Bechtel built...