Word: specialize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...concerned, they have failed most miserably and spectacularly. Lofty slogans are used against the U.S.S.R and against Communism, both inside the United Nations and outside. But, once again, one wonders, whether it is the interests of democracy that the United States has at heart, or merely its own special interests and privileged position, when it gives aid, particularly military aid, to foreign countries. Chitranjan Kapur...
Obvious Threat. Unanimously the board resolved that Allen's series "seriously violates the moral and ethical standards of the teaching profession." The horrified educators deplored: "The effect upon children of learning that [Allen] was in fact a spy prying upon their privacy and using the special privilege of the position of teacher as a vehicle for sensationalism; the effect upon teachers when they learned that the exchange of confidence between educators . . . can no longer be safely indulged in; the effect upon a community of the realization that the teachers with whom their children sit may be consciously concerned...
...Minsky is convinced that there is nothing special about intelligence or creativity. He thinks that as machines are built to perform more complicated mental processes they will gradually acquire more of the "creative" abilities of the human brain. When the first intelligent machines are constructed, suggested Minsky (perhaps joking only slightly), they may refuse to admit that they are machines at all. Only the really intelligent ones, whose development will come much later, will realize that they are made of electronic components according to principles first discovered in the 1950s...
...come better dyes and finishes, plus much-improved wash-and-wear cloth. The new idea is to bring out improved synthetics every year in a campaign of planned obsolescence. This season alone, chemical and textilemen are introducing more than a dozen new synthetics. Each one is tailored to a special job. For example, Eastman Kodak's Tennessee Eastman Co. has launched Kodel, which will blend with wool or synthetics to produce wash-and-wear flannels. Dow Chemical Co. has recently brought out Zefran, another wool-like synthetic to be woven into coats, suits, dresses and sweaters...
...psychologist, a traffic engineer, an automotive engineer, and a mechanic, alerted by radio, will be sent immediately to the scene of fatal crashes. At the same time a physician will be sent to the hospital to interview and examine the driver involved if possible, or to arrange for a special autopsy, which will search for causes for the fatalities which would not be readily apparent...