Word: shoots
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There is another route. You sit around a table with people and toss out ideas. Everyone tries to "shoot down" the ideas by either pointing out logical contradictions in them or by giving examples from experience where those ideas proved wrong. The ideas not shot down remain as possibilities, but no one can be sure that these ideas will remain unrefuted forever, and so we have ideas that might be real...
Essential to this process is that as many people with as many different experiences be brought in to shoot down ideas. This means not only blacks and whites, men and women, but also physicists, biologists, and poets Everyone. If a bunch of physicists went off by themselves and excluded chemists, they might waste a lot of time on a whole bunch of ideas that the chemists could shoot down at the toss of a hat. That's why fresh insights are often gained in "interdisciplinary research...
...Grill in Paris, which Scott describes at the opening of one of the stories, is "one of those places where things happen," the protagonists face life with the calm assurance of starring in their own drama. And with "the sharp, instantaneous transitions of scenes in the movies," the authors shoot them through a whirlwind of parties and wars and fallings in and out of love, before finding some neat way to bring about the happy, hoped-for, expected ending...
...want to live in a free society," MacNutt said. Buckley then interrupted, saying, "Where everyone can shoot each other...
Aerial Ambition. Belenko is proving to be almost as interesting as his plane. Foul-mouthed and boastful, the flamboyant fighter pilot has lamented that he never achieved his greatest aerial ambition-to shoot down an SR-71 Blackbird, the high-flying supersonic American spy plane...