Word: objectionable
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Weizenbaum's basic objection to the computer enthusiasts is that they have no sense of limits. Says he:
* Ada is named in honor of Lord Byron's science-minded daughter Ada, Countess of Lovelace, whose friend and collaborator Charles Babbage was the eccentric genius of the Analytical Engine. She also lives on in what is known as Lady Lovelace's Objection, which refers not to any...
The American Civil Liberties Union, whose state affiliates have brought many of the legal challenges, stresses that it has no Grinch-like objection to Christmas. Says Glorian Schneider, head of the South Dakota A.C.L.U. and a vocal foe of the crèche at the capitol in Pierre: "People get...
Whether or not the decision was wise, the way in which it was reached illustrated a danger in Reagan's decision-making system: the President often gets a slightly skewed view of the world from his advisers, who present to him not the arguments they really believe but those that...
KNOXVILLE. Tenn.--A temporary exhibition of prints depicting nude men and women as recently moved out of gallery at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville's student center following a local woman's objection to "the use of tax dollars to infiltrate millions of teenage virgin minds."