Word: unclearly
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...minute writing ability portion of the test hopes to "measure the student's command of grammar and diction as well as his ability to recognize verbose or unclear writing," the Educational Testing Service of Princeton, N.J., reports. The "test of general background," containing 90 questions, will test "the student's awareness of the intellectual and cultural context in which the law functions...
That these arguments are irrational will change no minds; but rational arguments are clearly not the useful counterfoil. The uncertainty exposed by the Administration's extremely unclear arguments cannot be met with thunders of outraged logic, for the issues are not essentially logical. Unfortunately, the alternative is that the Faculty sit down and discuss the issue with the Council, most unlikely when most regard the student group as combining the worst features of twerp politics and administrative annoyance...
Just how much real sacrifice for West Germany the new aid program will entail was still unclear. Not until after the elections this fall are the Germans likely to say how much of the $1 billion will be made up of the grants and longterm, low-interest loans that the underdeveloped countries really need. But this time, Kennedy said he was "satisfied...
...save a certain number of lives--but a crash program for Civil Defense shelters seems most likely to lead only to the use of increased destructive power on the part of the enemy. We are in fact capable of producing weapons of almost any magnitude, and the history of unclear armaments shows that destructive-offensive technology has consistently stayed ahead of protective-defensive measures. If Russia were to find a way to make its populations "secure" from our attack, I am reasonably sure that we would seek the weapons to undo this military advantage. There is no reason to expect...
...shooting at everything, Lindstrom hits many deserving targets, but he has not taken the trouble to consider carefully why all the evils he points out have come about. Thus, he is unclear about the relationship between the newspaper and its readership, about whether the nature of the society determines the nature of its newspapers or whether the newspapers can mold the tastes and interests of the society. (If the former is the case, there is little point in giving newspaper editors hell for providing the public with what it wants.) And he devotes insufficient attention to the problem...