Word: resorting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Perot's tendency to resort to vague rhetoric allows him to get away with misstatements that are only rarely challenged publicity. For example, during his congressional testimony he ludicrously asserted that no one in Clinton's administration "has ever run a business or created a job, far as I know...
...such a tenure offer. In fact, it demeans the professor who would ultimately receive such a tenure offer. In fact, it demeans all potential Latino faculty members, who should be chosen for the quality of their scholarship, not merely their ethnic background. Any attempt to increase diversity must not resort to such extremes...
...PATIENT COMPLAINS OF SEVERE CHEST PAINS, A sign that a heart attack is imminent or already in progress. Doctors have two options: inject the patient with drugs to dissolve clots in the coronary arteries or resort to angioplasty, an operation that involves opening the blood vessels by inserting and inflating tiny balloons. The drug treatment is simpler than angioplasty, but which is more effective? Two reports published in the New England Journal of Medicine come down on the side of the balloons. In one study, angioplasty reduced by half the risk of death or another heart attack six months after...
Still, toolmaking does not entirely explain why apes, humans and other animals developed big brains. Gorillas, orangutans and bonobos are roughly the intellectual peers of chimps but rarely resort to tool use. Nor does the need to build tools fully account for the enormous expansion of human brainpower during the past million years. As recently as 100,000 B.C., Homo sapiens were using only the crudest tools, even though their brains had already reached the present size -- large enough to put men on the moon, probe the basis of matter and tinker with the genetic code. Because big brains need...
...example, Colorado's recent discriminatory law prompted right-thinking folks to cancel trips to and performances in that state, and even sparked a debate over whether Harvard should turn down a gift of a Colorado ski resort. This type of divestment, however, merely deprives pro-gay rights people and organizations of the opportunity to exercise an influence in the state. it thereby worsens the condition of gays and supporters of gay rights there...