Search Details

Word: tellingly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2000
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...Last year we had an overwhelming majority of male council members," she said. So this year, "At introductory meetings, I made it a big part of my effort to tell women that this is something they...

Author: By F. REYNOLDS Mcpherson, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Council Election Opens With Fuller Field | 10/5/2000 | See Source »

...steam shower bought for the vice-presidential mansion by Pricewaterhouse-Coopers, Coca-Cola and General Motors to George W.'s mixing of politics, oil and baseball, corporate influence infiltrates candidates' lives in ways so subtle even they may not be fully aware of their culpability. And while politicians might tell you otherwise, companies aren't spending their money for nothing...

Author: By Christopher M. Kirchhoff, | Title: From Democracy to Corporacy | 10/4/2000 | See Source »

...last eight years tell us anything, they tell us to have a president tell us the truth," he said...

Author: By Zachary Z Norman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard Law Students Hold Rowdy Pre-Debate | 10/3/2000 | See Source »

...mathematician Alan Turing proposed a test to determine when computers had achieved this consciousness. Turing's test goes as follows: Imagine you are talking with an unknown entity on, say, instant messenger. If after an unlimited period of time you cannot tell if the entity you are communicating with is a computer or a flesh-and-blood human, then we must treat this computer as conscious. Turing's point was in many ways an epistemological **2) or empirical?** one: We can only define consciousness by the behavior we observe in other entities. So, basically, because you believe your roommates...

Author: By B.j. Greenleaf, | Title: Politics and the Turing Test | 10/3/2000 | See Source »

...charm, looks and football stories, and a Reaganesque ease that threatened to make Gore look unlikable. So Gore started with a gambit his daughter Karenna thought of: "I'd like to start by offering you a deal, Jack. If you won't use any football stories, I won't tell any of my warm and humorous stories about chlorofluorocarbon abatement." In one stroke, Gore got in a semi-funny self-deprecating wonk joke and got Kemp off his game. Gore spends the rest of the debate picking at differences between Kemp and Dole (watch for this one from George...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Great Debates of Al Gore | 10/2/2000 | See Source »

First | Previous | 56 | 57 | 58 | 59 | 60 | 61 | 62 | 63 | 64 | 65 | 66 | 67 | 68 | 69 | 70 | 71 | 72 | 73 | 74 | 75 | 76 | Next | Last