Word: presentation
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Very reluctantly, the union's negotiating board voted to present the contract to the full union in early July. On July 8, the union approved the contract with few dissenting votes...
While discussing the importance of memory, Michael Lemonick made the absurd statement that "there's really no such thing as the present." This contradicts all serious philosophical analysis--both Eastern and Western. In reality there is nothing but the present as far as human experience is concerned. The present is the intersection of our consciousness with the flow of time. Both past and future exist only as mental constructs in present consciousness, the past as memory and the future as imagination. ROBERT M. TAYLOR, ASSOC. PROFESSOR Clinical Neurology Ohio State University Columbus, Ohio...
...great thinkers of our past and present have managed very well without the smart Doogie. Intelligence is nurtured through curiosity and creativity, not manipulation. Only shallow, insecure people will be interested in standing in line for the brain steroid. Smart genes? Non merci! MIGUEL ZAMARRIPA Montreal...
...that a Washington taxi driver once told an inquiring passenger that the motto on the National Archives Building, WHAT IS PAST IS PROLOGUE, really means "You ain't seen nothin' yet." In the case of the Internet and American business, the motto could be changed to WHAT IS PRESENT IS PROLOGUE--but it would translate the same...
...realize the promise of IT, and minimize the risks, we must experiment with new policies and new institutional structures, make provisional decisions about where we should be headed and then experiment some more. The bright side, says Romer, is that it's doable: "We control this process." Both present and past may be prologue, and indeed we ain't seen nothin' yet, but the story line after the prologue will be determined not by the inexorable commands of a technological god, but by plain old humans...