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THERE IS A THIRD METHOD of dealing with examination questions--that is by the use of the overpowering assumption, an assumption so cosmic that it is sometimes accepted. For example, we wrote that it was pretty obvious that the vague generality was the key device in any discussion of examination writing. Why is it obvious? As a matter of fact it isn't obvious at all, but just an arbitrary point from which to start. That is an example of an unwarranted assumption...
...design or research facility to construct deliverable bombs. They can be dropped from airplanes; but if the aggressor has only a few bombs and the potential victim has any kind of air defense, the bombers could easily be shot down before hitting their target. Missile warheads are the preferred method for delivering a devastating blow -- and North Korea produces missiles that can carry nukes, not just for its own use but also for export. As part of the round robin among the secret developers, North Korea early this year sold to Syria (which may have a fledgling nuclear-weapons program...
However, this is another arena in which proper education is vital, because high condom failure rate is due primarily to breakage stemming from improper use. In addition, failure rate for preventing pregnancy seems so high because couples say that condoms are their method of contraception except for the one, or two or however many instances in which they did not actually...
...Beatty is "ecstatic" about becoming a father and has even embraced the Lamaze method (the child is due in three weeks). Bening burbles that Beatty will be "an attentive, caring father." He enjoys the tabloid stories his new domesticity has inspired: "I've invented a birthing tank, we've enrolled our daughter in an English boarding school, I've been visiting sick babies...
Because they are denied their legal right to organize and bargain collectively with growers, farm workers, especially grape workers, earn meager wages while working under miserable conditions. Many grape growers use the piece rate method to underpay their workers. As a result, grape growers often earn as little as $2 an hour...