Word: types
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...teaching at Shaw is a peculiar combination of old-fashioned educational philosophy and experimental new methods. Miss Watson, the formidable head of the English department, stubbornly defends her course in transformational grammar (a type of semantic analysis used in computer science). The subject baffles other members of the department, and gives considerable trouble to students who cannot yet distinguish between adjectives and verbs. But no one graduates who has not passed the course. Many students are taking it the second and third time; the failure rate is high even for Shaw...
...jury. We're not even an owner in most of those areas any more . . ."). Gordon's son doesn't sound repentent, merely perplexed and a bit hurt that the family's attempt to be socially relevant ("The School of Nursing appealed to my father--a gift of the type that would benefit the community in general") was so hostilely received...
ASPIRITUAL-TYPE piece that the Fish do runs in the same vein. "Please don't drop that H-bomb on me, drop it on yourself," Joe pleads, and then, as if to say that the only way to fight the destruction and evil and hideousness of War is to turn on, the group begins immediately to play the beautiful "Thought Dream...
What really galled the President was "exorbitant prices for drugs" bought with federal funds. Noting that twelve drugs of the same type (prednisone) range from $1.25 to $11 for 30 tablets, he declared: "The taxpayer should not be forced to pay $11 if the $1.25 drug is equally effective. To do this would permit robbery of private citizens with public approval." He asked Congress to let HEW enforce a reasonable price scale for drugs used under Medicare and Medicaid...
...minimize errors-a major problem in back-office operations-the machine displays each message on its video-type screen so that the clerk can proofread it before pushing the "transmit" button. Best of all, the data is fed directly into a computer that automatically relays it to the proper branch office. The system thus eliminates one of the most time-consuming aspects of back-office paperwork: matching buy and sell reports from exchanges with each customer's original order and passing the word along to the salesman...