Word: panels
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...must fight for the truth in our society, whatever the cost," Mochtar Lubis, an Indonesian correspondent, said yesterday at a panel discussion of four journalists at the Kennedy School of Government...
...panel of journalists consisted of Lubis, Vittachi, Jaqueline Grapin, financial editor of Le Monde, and Silviu Brucan, a Rumanian journalist...
...Talmadge's case, the committee considered a variety of damning words, including "reprimand" and "condemn." None of them seemed quite right, but last week the panel hit on a semantic solution: it unanimously recommended that the full Senate "denounce" Talmadge for "reprehensible" behavior and require him to refund at least $13,000. Undismayed, Talmadge, who is running for re-election to a fifth term, claimed that the verdict exonerated him of intentional wrongdoing. Said Georgia's senior Senator: "I feel the result is a personal victory...
...labeled. Two-thirds of the 13-year-olds could calculate the "distance around" a pictured rectangle with two dimensions given; only a third could determine how much fencing was needed to go around a rectangular garden not pictured, but with the same two dimensions given. An N.A.E.P. advisory panel of educators tentatively blamed textbooks and oversimplified "back to basics" programs for the poor results in the "higher order of cognitive skills." though most problems seemed basic indeed...
Yeager dips out of Wolfe's pages as the undisputed king of the right stuff, the man whose no-sweat, West Virginia drawl sounds like the archetype for modern airlinese ("We've got a little ol' red light up here on the control panel that's tryin' to tell us that the landin' gears're not... uh ... lockin' into position"). He is also the book's main foil, a member of a vanishing breed of hot-rock pilot in an age of increasingly automated flight...