Word: orality
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...taken on a new intensity this year. In its annual report to the President last February the National Science Foundation included evidence that the nation's scientific performance was slipping. The report showed, for example, that the U.S., which produced 82% of all major innovations-including nuclear reactors, oral contraceptives, integrated circuits, and remote sensing systems-during the late '50s, accounted for only 55% during...
Klein says of Carter: "He is willing to accept good advice, makes sharp intuitive appraisals and picks up complicated economic ideas very fast." According to other aides, Carter is not content with oral briefings but insists that economic ideas be put on paper so that he can read them...
Doctors elsewhere in the U.S. are fighting back. The journal Medical Economics reports that one oral surgeon in the East was awarded $4,500 in damages, plus costs, from a patient who had claimed malpractice. At a preliminary hearing in Fort Pierce, Fla., a judge recently set a Florida precedent by letting stand an orthopedic surgeon's charge of "malicious prosecution" in his separate $1.5 million countersuits against two former patients and their lawyers. Though the cases have yet to be tried, the doctor's attorney, Ellis Rubin, thinks that they have already had a chastening effect...
...arithmetic underlying that gallows humor, reports TIME Supreme Court Correspondent David Beckwith, should be chilling to those who last week presented oral arguments asking the court to eliminate capital punishment finally and completely. For the remark assumed that Chief Justice Warren Burger and Justices Harry Blackmun, William Rehnquist and Lewis Powell, who voted against finding the death penalty cruel and unusual punishment in 1972, will continue to hold to that position. If new Justice John Paul Stevens joins them or if either Potter Stewart or Byron White switches sides, then the nine-year nationwide executions hiatus will be near...
...grandmother to repeat the story now; she has a disease that often prevents her from remembering who I am, much less spinning tales of the Old Country. If I had read this book sooner, perhaps I would have pressed her for details while there was still time. "Oral history" tends to be a somewhat clinical procedure, despite the best efforts of its practitioners; "conversation" is a much more satisfying method of communication. But for those who, like me, seem to have missed their chance, this book provides a respectable alternative. Of course these women have left things out of their...