Word: step-by-step
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...Programming of the material seems to be much more complicated than the construction of the machine. Through programming, "specific forms of behavior are to be evoked and, through differential reinforcement, brought under the control of specific stimuli." It is the step-by-step organization of the knowledge to be inculcated; and the frames are chosen and arranged in the way which will fully exploit the advantages of "immediate feedback," or direct determination of an answer's correctness or incorrectness...
...Step by Step. Mike soon quit his job to set up private practice in a cubicle on Cushman Street. He liked the law but being the friendly sort, found it hard to apply himself seriously. He lost his papers on the way to court to try his first case; he seemed forever to be playing golf or shooting the breeze with friends on Cushman Street while Mat stayed home and cared for an increasing crop of children-now the famous "eight little 'itches" (five months to nine years old), who are part of a Step...
...headlines told it, the story of congressional debate on the Eisenhower Doctrine was a step-by-step battle over phrases. With the doctrine passed, the story is something far bigger: the story of a historic step in U.S. foreign policy that began with a scribble on a yellow scratch pad. It is told exclusively in NATIONAL AFFAIRS, The Eisenhower Doctrine...
Shifting Pressure. Even as the U.S. enacted the doctrine, the U.S. and the U.N. were pressing the step-by-step, inch-by-inch progress toward easement of the Middle East's internal problems. One day Israel got out of Gaza and the Aqaba Gulf positions, and the blue-helmeted soldiers of the U.N. Emergency Force moved in. Another day Syria agreed to start repairing oil pipelines sabotaged during the British-French-Israeli attack on Egypt, through which Iraqi oil can be pumped to Mediterranean ports en route to Europe. Even Nasser's Egypt, still dickering...
...Israel v. the Arabs were piling up menacingly. On Israel's behalf, public pressures were spreading through Congress all the way up through Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson and Minority Leader William Fife Knowland to the White House door. Ike had come back from Georgia to press his step-by-step program. His next move: talk it out with top Senators and Representatives in secret session beginning the next...