Word: simplest
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...delighted." But in the prevailing atmosphere of uncertainty, business is at a standstill, and hoarding is widespread (1,000-lira notes have virtually disappeared from circulation). Businessmen complain that government officials are so afraid of being charged with dispensing favors that they are reluctant to sign the simplest document involving money. The trials of Menderes & Co. are still going on in low gear at Yassiada island, but because of mismanagement and the flimsiness of much of the evidence, have largely lost impact with the Turkish public. In fact, the chief effect has been to win the defendants a certain amount...
Most of the former French colonies paid their mother country the compliment of adapting the Tricolor, although eschewing the French red, white and blue. Even the simplest designs caused headaches. In Chad, the Assembly wrangled for two days, and the 85 Deputies suggested 85 separate flags. In making its final choice, the government was careful to eliminate green, which for many Africans symbolizes Islam but in Chad is the color of the opposition party. Cameroun happily prepared to embellish its flag with a shrimp, since the country's name derives from the Portuguese word for shrimp, camar...
...Cheating. The teaching machines, in essence, apply to learning what manufacturers applied long ago to industry in developing the mass-production assembly line. Information is broken down into its smallest components and simplest parts. The student learns by putting the information together again in quick, easy stages...
...simplest solution--using the hydraulic lifts, which were essential to the "open stage"--appeared to be the rotation of banks of forward seating. It seemed that the only problems here (sketch No. 5) were matters of mechanics, engineering and cost...
...this campaign, Federal aid to education has become a substantive issue. The simplest and most lurid reason for advocating such a program is the frightening challenge with which the Soviet Union presents us in this field. As Averell Harriman has observed, however, the United States has an obligation to promulgate social advance without waiting for a prod from Moscow...