Word: recommends
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...revenues from defense work, called on the President to reduce his military budget by up to $10 billion. "Those battleship expenditures don't seem very wise. I think the South Atlantic fiasco proves that ships aren't safe from missile attack," said Packard. "I'd also recommend skipping the B-l bomber and going directly to the Stealth bomber." Agreed Jones: "There's a real question of whether we can intelligently spend that much money that fast...
...white-coated doctor is hunched over his patient's bed. He is running the curious combination of symptoms through his mind, but he cannot quite get the overall picture to add up. "I'd like to call in a colleague to recommend a diagnosis," he tells the patient. The consultant he has in mind has decades of medical experience, an infallible memory for past cases and an encyclopedic knowledge of symptoms and diseases. The consultant, whose only shortcoming is a rather cold bedside manner, is a computer...
...rhetoric today tends to call war "futile" and "pointless." But, historically, almost all societies have seen the point of war; at any rate, they have always waged it. Today, the civilization's sheer annihilating capabilities make war seem a grotesque old habit of the race, with nothing to recommend it. But at one time, war was young and stirring and beautiful-or at least it had that side as well as its awful stricken one, its waste of life, its writhing and refugees. War made the adrenaline run, it gave life drama and meaning. The young went...
This problem has, we were glad to learn last week, attracted the attention of Richard Marius, the director of the expository writing program. Expressing concern that graders often ignore, students' poor writing and do little to develop writing skills. Marius announced his plans to recommend that all section leaders in Core courses with paper assignments be required to undergo a graining program in criticizing written work. His proposal will come this summer, in a report on the expository writing program to Henry Rosovsky, dean of Faculty, he said...
...From Eden is the most important book now available in the field of social science. I cannot recommend it strongly enough for any one who seeks answers to big questions. You may attack his methodology, his technique, his conclusions--but at least he's in the right goddam field. You cannot attack his relevance. His subject matter is the sacred--and that's pretty dame important. The evolution of consciousness is behind all forms of human endeavour and now that we are aware of this evolution, we become part of the process--we take, part in the making...