Word: understandings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...collectively, have always known the real truth about the female being. And they have been guarding this secret for some time, even going to war to protect it. If we replace the word "body" with "being" when discussing both women and men, we can expand our attempts to truly understand each other's identity. JEANNE BELOVITCH Boston...
...fixers did a really bad job. As the World Wrestling Federation has taught me, a good fixed fight starts with two guys yelling at each other and usually involves thrown chairs, a choke hold given by a guy outside the ring and, for reasons I don't understand but kind of enjoy, a screaming, scantily dressed woman...
...grade of school they're studying, or in what garage they're inventing the next Flyer of the information age. Our mission is to make sure that wherever they are, they have the chance to run their own course, to persevere and follow their own inspiration. We have to understand that engineering breakthroughs are not just mechanical or scientific--they are liberating forces that can continually improve people's lives. Who would have thought, as the 20th century opened, that one of its greatest contributions would come from two obscure, fresh-faced young Americans who pursued the utmost bounds...
Even then, Keynes had a hard sell. Most economists of the era rejected his idea and favored balanced budgets. Most politicians didn't understand his idea to begin with. "Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influences, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist," Keynes wrote. In the 1932 presidential election, Franklin D. Roosevelt had blasted Herbert Hoover for running a deficit, and dutifully promised he would balance the budget if elected. Keynes' visit to the White House two years later to urge F.D.R. to do more deficit spending wasn't exactly a blazing...
...bridge may fall down." For Wittgenstein, the problem was about the social context in which human beings can be said to "follow the rules" of a mathematical system. What Turing saw, and Wittgenstein did not, was the importance of the fact that a computer doesn't need to understand rules to follow them. Who "won"? Turing comes off as somewhat flatfooted and naive, but he left us the computer, while Wittgenstein left us...Wittgenstein...