Word: obvious
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...allocate organ transplants. Since voting majorities of the public often take sides by condemning or condoning the role of technology, legislators and policy makers respond to these extremes. Though perhaps inevitable, this response need not preclude reassessment of the relation between science and public policy. What is obvious is that science expands the frontier of our living conditions. What needs to be recognized is that science is an ethical frontier, rapidly outmoding our ways of making decisions. As a society, we are like a child with a powerful new set of hands--a toy about which we can neither recognize...
...questioned the validity of that argument. "The reason why other groups are being exempt is intuitively obvious, while the reason that a social group should be exempt is not as obvious," Levy added...
...solution to the problem is obvious. It does not lie in the cafeteria approach to higher learning in which every student must consume a little of each basic food group. This is supposed to produce a well-rounded mind, but a close look at the "well-rounded minds" thus formed will find them marred by holes. The college needs mandatory courses, taught by the best professors, which will provide an understanding of the important ideas and values of our civilization...
...lost amidst competing claims about who could best tame the deficit or who would rein in the runaway arms race. Sure, the President mumbled something about how well he did with Sandra Day O'Connor and Mondale occasionally warned against the perils of Reagan court, but next to the obvious and immediate issues of budgets and bombs the Court received watcher put it. "For one of the most profound issues of the campaign, it hasn't been treated very profoundly...
...respectful operatic perversion of Tennyson's "Princess," the script tells of a princess who forswears the company of men to found that obvious oxymoron, a woman's university. Man is proclaimed "nature's sole mistake," and all things male are so despised that the maidens wake to the crowing of an "accomplished hen." Complications arise in this distaff paradise, however, when it is revealed that the Princess had been betrothed at the age of one to a Prince Hilarion (Paul Moreax...