Word: teach
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Perle once joked that he and like-minded officials were going to "teach the nation a lesson in supply-side arms control." He meant there would have to be years of unilateral buildup in American defenses before there could be a resumption of bilateral talks. Even then, Perle would be deeply skeptical about the wisdom of any arms control. "This stuff is soporific," he once remarked to Burt. "It puts our society to sleep. It does violence to our ability to maintain adequate defenses." Meese was echoing this sentiment when he said, early
...summer school is about). There's also some interesting stuff that's not there--tenured professors from Harvard, for instance. I count eight on the summer school faculty listed towards the back of this book, but for the life of me I can't figure out what they all teach. Adam Ulam is cited in the back, but, as far as can be told, he is nowhere to be found--even in the listings of offerings in his very own Government Department...
Fortunately, better manuals may be on the way. Leading technical schools like Rensselaer Polytechnic in Troy, N.Y., and Pittsburgh's Carnegie-Mellon have writing programs that teach students how to translate complex facts into clear directions. Enrollment in the classes is high, and instructors say that corporations have been snapping up their graduates...
...which electronic devices are used to teach patients to relieve tension, has proved helpful for a number of ailments, including one of the most perplexing problems in medicine: phantom limb pain, the often agonizing sensations that amputees "feel" in missing limbs. Psychophysiologist Richard Sherman, of Dwight David Eisenhower Army Medical Center in Fort Gordon, Ga., has found that the pain, which afflicts about 80% of amputees at one time or another, is sometimes due to muscle spasms in the stump. When Sherman teaches patients to relax the affected muscles through biofeedback training, the sensations in the phantom limb usually disappear...
...school." Jeff speaks of returning in the fall after a two-and-a-half year absence, although he is not sure what he ultimately wants to do with his life. Daniel is going to work for the City of Baltimore and considering law school, Rich wants to teach high school history. At the furthest extreme, none of Shawn's friends have heard from her since December. Kathy isn't sure, but she thinks Shawn may have simply gone...