Word: rehashes
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...weekly problem sets are really no problem--they are basically a rehash of Fisher's lectures. Grading is relatively easy; students receive four out of a possible six points on each problem set for just following instructions. And although head section man Bruce Patton urges students to hand in nine of the assignments, few complete more than the required number...
...only theatrical flourish is the use of a flashback format in the first half. Besides being a TV cliché (especially in nonfiction dramas), the device is counterproductive. Whenever Dean reaches a pause in his reminiscences, the show stops dead the hero and his lawyer (Ed Flanders) can rehash the obvious moral lessons of what has just happened...
These official recommendations seem a well-informed but familiar rehash. (Is it partly because N.A.S.S.P. officials promise to send the proposals to the White House for the attention of Jimmy Carter?) Lacking as yet a special style of their own, the kids lapse into officialese, the language in which adults in the bureaucracies back home so often speak to them...
Even before the report was released, the industry-funded Tobacco Institute denounced it as "more rehash than research" and asserted that the links between smoking and disease have not been proved conclusively. Institute Vice President Bill Dwyer accused Califano, who kicked his three-pack-a-day habit in 1975, of displaying "all the zeal of a reformed sinner." Added Dwyer: "America beware if Joe Califano ever gives up drinking or other pleasure pursuits, even the most intimate...
Resorts President I.G. ("Jack") Davis attacked the report, contending that it is a rehash of old, unfounded charges. It accused the company of ties to organized crime, faulty accounting, inadequate information about gambling junkets and the purchase of a key employee's silence with a ten-year, $350,000 consulting contract...