Word: impracticall
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There is, of course, no such thing as the Asian mind-there are dozens. An Indonesian is as different from a Japanese as a Frenchman from an American. Generalizations never do justice to national differences, but in a kind of shorthand it might be said that the Chinese are practical...
One of the primary problems is that college officials have had to force some of their policies -- such as uniform board rates -- on an unwilling student body. Such measures are justified as being in the best interests of the long-range plan for a residential college. Yet close affiliation with...
But a major element in his acne treatment is diet, a prescription that is not so simple as it sounds. Mothers complain that grown boys and girls keep on drinking milk, as in childhood, "because they don't like to chew meat or any food that takes time to...
Second, there should be an independent commission to investigate accidents. Although it would be impractical to study every case. Buxbaum said, a statistically accurate sample would be sufficient to determine the major defects. The board, he detailed, would have the power to impound crashed cars and conduct, a thorough "autopsy...
When he won a scholarship to Yale, his scarecrow clothes drew jeers. "My whole freshman year I wore brown and white shoes," he recalls. "Actually they were impractical because the white one kept getting dirty."