Word: groundedness
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Was Charles Lindbergh a reckless flyer who should have been grounded for his own good? Or was he a skilled pilot who prevailed, with a bit of his famed luck, over the hazards of poor aircraft and sloppy maintenance of the 1920s? These questions are raised in an intriguing exchange...
In the letters, MacCracken revealed to Lindy that after his fourth jump in 1927, "I was thinking of grounding you so you wouldn't be taking so many chances." He did not do so only because Bill Robertson, one of the owners of the mail service for which Lindbergh...
The step system is grounded in behavior modification theory, where a tantalizing reward is supposed to induce the desired behavior. But even if the philosophy is sound, it has filtered down through so many layers of bureaucracy that it loses any validity it might have had in the beginning. The...
Lewis's opinions are grounded on a thorough knowledge of firearms. He has been trained in combat shooting at Smith and Western Academy in Springfield, Mass., and at the National Rifle Association Police Firearms Instructors Training School at Camp Perry, Ohio, where he taught last summer. He has also been...
British Chancellor of the Exchequer Denis Healey possesses a splendid-some think notorious-gift for Panglossian rhetoric in the face of economic distress. Last week he held forth with customary ebullience on Britain's economic prospects. But this time his optimism was well grounded. In addresses to Common Market...