Word: proof
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ever doubting students needed proof that education, especially philosophy pays, even in a technological era, it can be found in the Nadav Safran case. Professor Sissela Bok had hardly left the Yard when her wise words on ethics in general and secrecy in particular were forgotten. I hear that she has been invited to return to give Moral Reasoning 24. I do not know it this is in consequence of the Satran case; whether or not it is, it should be open not only to undergraduates, but to deans and faculty, who seem also to be in need of core...
...high school statistics class, I turned in such a poor poll, with such a poorly worded question, I would have failed. The effect a question can have on both the response rate and the nature of the response cannot be overemphasized. The council's referendum is proof. Its results are immensely uncertain, with a large bias favoring those who want the council involved. While 59 (the percentage of "Yes" votes on question two) is approximately the upper bound on the percent of undergraduates who want the council to support divestment, the lower bound is a mere 26.5 percent (100 percent...
...American self-esteem, and so on, and so forth. So much money and institutional clout have been poured into and around the pyramid that it now seems as fixed a historical construct as that of Cheops. Nevertheless, it has not commemorated all the artists equally. Kline is the proof...
Akers cited IBM's support for Black entrepreuneurial efforts, donation of computer equipment to Black schools, and training of Black employees as proof of IBM's positive business role in South Africa. Akers said that IBM has made its opposition to apartheid "crystal clear to the South African government...
...spokesman for the Soviet Embassy in Paris said the French action was "devoid of proof" and of a "manifestly inimical and provocative" character...