Word: precisionism
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It wasn't an athletic contest that brought the Yale Precision Marching Band up north to display its talents. The trip celebrated a victorious moment for the band's drum major, David Y. Polinsky, who submitted his senior thesis yesterday morning.
One of the burdens under which the Administration's arms-control negotiators are laboring is an injunction not to trade away, or even accept, significant limitations on weapons systems where the U.S. has a technological lead. For example, American advances in microelectronics and precision guidance put the U.S. cruise...
DIED. Igor Markevitch, 70, exacting Russian-born, Swiss-reared conductor who began as a composing prodigy-dubbed Igor II, he was expected to follow in Stravinsky's footsteps-but in 1930 picked up the baton and became best known as a master of conducting precision; after a heart attack...
Flash and the Five sport a wardrobe that goes for a lot of "gusto," money, in straight talk, so their audience would be hard pressed for direct imitation. Like rapper talk, which pulls in language from such diverse sources as '40s hipster, '60s hippie and even cockney rhyming...
By breaking down a system into smaller, more easily solved physics problems, the proponents of determinism expected--in theory, anyway--that they could solve all of those equations and figure out what is going to happen next. Popper squarely attacks this view. First, he says we cannot know any initial...