Word: tediousness
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Through all relations with the U.S. Government, Franks moves with supple grace. In conference, he is concise and convincing. He shuns the tedious insistence of some diplomats on speaking only with the Secretary of State, welcomes fruitful discussion on any level. He has lately achieved a remarkable triumph over his own personal reticence-that gravity and sobriety that had made many of his diplomatic colleagues find him chilly. He is on a first-name basis with such key officials as Dean Acheson, John Snyder, State's Assistant Secretary Jack Hickerson. With the more intellectual U.S. policymakers, e.g., Planner George...
Other calculator experts (a minority) are not so sure. They admit that even the Mark III is crude compared to a human brain with its billions of cross-connected nerve cells. Yet the Mark III can already beat the human brain at certain tedious tasks. Imaginative scientists can only' guess at what other mental marvels its more efficient descendants will be able to produce...
Other calculator experts (a minority) are not so sure. They admit that even the Mark III is crude compared to a human brain with its billions of cross-connected nerve cells. Yet the Mark III can already beat the human brain at certain tedious tasks. Imaginative scientists can only' guess at what other mental marvels its more efficient descendants will be able to produce...
...Ingrid Bergman to work under one of the heaviest handicaps of her career. At best, the story is a florid historical romance; at its worst it is little better than hysterical drugstore fiction. Even tricked out with Technicolor and the skillfully elegant direction of Alfred Hitchcock, if remains a tedious and dispiriting yarn...
...knew was that it was contained in the brain tissue of animals (usually rabbits) from which the vaccine is made. The trick was to dissolve the brain tissue without killing the factor which prevents rabies. His years of work led to a tedious, complicated process in which the infected brain tissue is repeatedly dissolved, chilled, suspended, centrifuged and filtered until a "washed vaccine," untainted by the paralytic factor, is left...