Word: weighs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...received damned good instruction from professors who could not weigh their monographs by the ton. Their production consisted of inspiring students to think. I wouldn't trade my experiences in their classrooms for a thousand monographs...
After studying intelligence estimates and listening to various suggestions, the President left the room. He told his advisers that they should weigh the dangers and make the decision...
...least one electronic digital computer-the versatile calculator that is rapidly taking charge of everything from taxes to insurance to airline reservations to CIA intelligence. Man's capacity to manage vast organizations is being enlarged enormously by the computer's ability to simulate complex situations, weigh thousands of variables, and produce dependable decisions far faster than the human brain. By forecasting future markets, computers locate gas stations and branch banks in the most profitable places. By controlling runaway inventories, they curb one of the leading causes of recessions...
...threatened to picket Liston's training camp. He offered to fight Sonny on the street, for free. "I cannot be beaten," he insisted. "It's prophesied for me to be successful." But at his public training sessions, Clay looked impressively listless. The experts hooted. And the prefight weigh-in did nothing to change their minds...
...college-board tests. Not necessarily, say Admissions Men Fred L. Glimp and Dean K. Whitla in the Harvard Alumni Bulletin. Harvard more and more seeks men who may score below 500 but have something else: "a touch of greatness." High school teachers and principals are asked to weigh this quality on a high-to-low scale of 1 to 6. Glimp and Whitla wisely avoid defining it, but envision some combination of "effectiveness, energy, judgment, integrity, generosity of spirit or cussedness...