Word: particularized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...significant combination of symbols built up on his console can transmit his "display" to any other console screen in the center or, within seconds, have it projected on the large screen for everyone to see. By pointing a narrow beam from a light gun at an area of particular interest on his console screen, an operator can enlarge that area 16-fold or cause it to flash on and off on other screens to alert the rest of the staff...
Situation ethics does admit to one absolute: love. In any moral decision, Fletcher argues, the key question is: "What does God's love demand of me in this particular situation?" By stressing the demand of love, situation ethics is at once more lenient and more stringent than law morality. It can command hard decisions as well as easy ones-acceptance of martyrdom, for example, when law morality would permit surrender or compromise. It can also say that certain acts are immoral which law ethics would consider tech nically valid. To the situationist, says Fletcher, "even a transient sex liaison...
Each successive stage of decomposition, Payne found, was characterized by the arrival and departure of particular groups of insects. With this information, he says, even if a body's decomposition were so advanced that a pathologist could not determine the time of death, the character of its insect population would be a dead giveaway to an experienced entomologist...
Julian's commitment, his SNCC militancy, emerges in a quiet way. Towards the end of the journey, riding along in the dark, Julian spoke out, addressing no one in particular. "Funny, there's not lots of pressure to sell out, just pressure to keep quiet...
Some writers use the word "catastrophe" loosely, but among fire and casualty underwriters, it has a particular meaning: a catastrophe is an event that causes insurance losses of $1,000,000 or more to a fixed property. And by that definition 1965 was a catastrophic year for the industry in the U.S. Altogether there were 13 catastrophes, the second-highest total in history; they included seven major tornadoes as well as Hurricane Betsy, which caused total damages of $715 million. Among losses not caused by nature were the crashes at various times of three new Boeing 727 jetliners involving insurance...