Word: groundedness
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Rhetorical Smoke. The Chinese indicated that they were intent on serious diplomatic business by naming a high-powered delegation (see box), whose ten members, headed by Deputy Foreign Minister Chiao Kuan-hua, are particularly well-grounded in Soviet and U.S. affairs. One reason for fielding a team heavily laden with...
The recommendations presented below are designed to make undergraduate education at Harvard and Radcliffe more responsive to what we perceive to be the needs, goals, and feelings of students in 1970. We have not tried to offer a detailed philosophy of education which could provide a context and justification for...
At around page 500 of this novel about Sir Walter Raleigh's last years, the reader is fending off the fine words with his free hand and shouting "Enough!" And yet ... and yet ... (as Novelist Garrett, whose prose is measled with portentous dots, might write) the gaudy style is...
Thanks to a Canadian invention called the Oilevator, grimy beaches and greasy seagulls may soon be a thing of the past -provided the machine, nicknamed the "slick-licker," can get to the scene on time. The brainchild of Canadian Engineer Richard Sewell, the licker passed its biggest test last year...
Undercover. The 6,200 Disney World staffers, in general, are young: 5,500 are between 17 and 22, and every one of them is wholesome. Their uniforms are designed with all the come-hither appeal of cassocks; one monorail pilot was grounded briefly on opening day because her black bikini...