Word: basics
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When Angie Nolting learned to use a computer at the Ortonville, Minn., high school last year, she went far beyond basic programming. Mastering an electronic work-sheet program called VisiCalc, the 16-year-old junior built a financial model that showed which livestock operations on her parents' 40-acre farm were no longer profitable, and why. By surveying farms in the area to compare feed costs, weight gain per animal and other variables, Angie discovered that the family's flock of 50 sheep was overfed. Guided by her data, the Noltings cut back on feed outlays. Although the threat...
...effort to resuscitate the economy, the Federal Reserve has been letting the amount of money in circulation rise rapidly. During the first six months of the year, M1, the basic measure of the money supply, which primarily includes currency and checking accounts, grew at a 10.4% clip, far above the Federal Reserve's target range of 4% to 7%. That spurt helped interest rates fall a bit. The prime rate that banks charge on commercial loans has dropped from...
Baseball, of course, is not the only professional sport with a drug problem. The National Football League has had numerous publicized cases of drug abuse recently. Just last week the N.F.L. suspended Minnesota Vikings Running Back Chuck Muncie because he failed to attend two therapy sessions after completing a basic drug-treatment program. The league's policy permits club owners to order on-the-spot drug tests if they have "reasonable cause" to do so. If a player refuses to submit, he can be suspended and then appeal the suspension to a grievance board. The National Basketball Association permits...
...what of the reason for reform in the first place, the emphasis on the basic sciences now widely considered undue...
...Professor Brandt remarks, the "tremendous hope that the answers to social medicine could be worked out at the highest levels of biochemical research" has fostered the emphasis on basic science in pre-medical and medical education. It is precisely this belief that may be changing