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( Whether historical nationalism helped the peoples of the remainder of the world, and whether today's nationalism in the former colonial areas has equally beneficial aspects, are other questions.
I have just asked these questions in the Pentagon, in the White House, in offices of key scientists across the country and aboard the submarines that prowl for months underwater, with neat rows of green launch tubes which contain Polaris missiles and which are affectionately known as `` Sherwood Forest ''.
I asked the same questions inside the launch-control rooms of an Atlas missile base in Wyoming, where officers who wear sidearms are manning the `` commit buttons '' that could start a war -- accidentally or by design -- and in the command centers where other pistol-packing men could give orders to push such buttons.
In fact, insofar as science generates any fear, it stems not so much from scientific prowess and gadgets but from the fact that new unanswered questions arise, which, until they are understood, create uncertainty.
No questions, statements, or explanations are permitted -- only commands.
The tasks are briefly indicated by these questions: What are my goals in Gentile-Jewish relations??
The religious quest is often intense and deep, and there are students on every campus who are seriously wrestling with the most profound questions of meaning and value.
Although he questions the extent and nature of the alleged revival of religion and the alleged increase in conformity, and thinks that `` hedonistic '' present-time orientation does not have the meaning usually attributed to it, he does conclude that Americans increasingly enjoy leisure without guilt, do not stress achievement so much as formerly, are more accepting of group harmony as a goal, more tolerant of diversity and aware of other cultures.
If the would-be joiner asks these questions he is not likely to be duped by extremists who are seeking to capitalize on the confusions and the patriotic apprehensions of Americans in a troubled time.
After all, when one has asked whatever became of old Joe and Charlie when one has inquired who it was Sue Brown married and where it is they now live when questions are asked and answered about families and children, and old professors when the game and its probable outcome has been exhausted that does it.
Even then, a few of the `` less interesting '' questions are edited out and glibly summarized by a commentator.
The replies from each individual town are not given in detail because the questions asked the personal opinion of the several assessors and are not necessarily the established policy of the town in each case.
Each year a few more institutions are deciding such questions as: Shall we require a liberal education built around a humanities core for all undergraduates??
Specifically, it will be asked whether the `` real '' questions people ask are not the `` ultimate '' questions that social science finds itself impotent in the face of.
I think it must be said that, contrary to metaphysical insistence, these are questions so framed as to defy either empirical exploration or rational solutions.
As Simmel ( 1908 ) and Dilthey ( 1922 ) indicated, questions of whether the value of life is individual or social are not questions, but assertions of faith made to appear as legitimate questions.
It is not that such questions are not asked.
What is missing is work that would answer, presumably by the use of survey methods and Guttman-type attitude scales, such questions as these: What are the components of the feeling-state described as alienation??
The mediums with whom the Parapsychology Foundation is working in this experiment are in a waking or only slightly dissociated state, so that the sitter can make comments, ask and answer questions, instead of talking with a `` control '' who speaks through an entranced sensitive.

questions and generally
The students crowded around asking questions, slapping me on the back, and generally being friendly.
The questions were at this time attributed to Isaac the Jew, but it is now generally considered more prudent to attribute them simply to Ambrosiaster, whatever his identity might be.
In direct examination, one is generally prohibited from asking leading questions.
It is less generally realized that his Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer ( 1964 ) was a similar exercise, exploring theological questions through correspondence addressed to a fictional recipient, " Malcolm ", though this work may be considered a " novel " only loosely in that developments in Malcolm's personal life gradually come to light and impact the discussion.
v. U. S. 156 U. S. 51 ( 1895 ), generally considered the pivotal case concerning the rights and powers of the jury, declared: " It is our deep and settled conviction, confirmed by a re-examination of the authorities that the jury, upon the general issue of guilty or not guilty in a criminal case, have the right, as well as the power, to decide, according to their own judgment and consciences, all questions, whether of law or of fact, involved in that issue.
Distributive justice theorists generally do not answer questions of who has the right to enforce a particular favored distribution.
Until the day I die people will keep saying, ‘ Leni is a Nazi ’, and I ’ ll keep saying, ‘ But what did she do ?’” Although she won more than 50 libel cases against people accusing her of collaborating with the Nazis, there are many unanswered questions about her relation to National Socialism in particular and fascism more generally.
The propriety of leading questions generally depends on the relationship of the witness to the party conducting the examination.
An examiner may generally ask leading questions of a hostile witness or on cross-examination ( to elicit testimony which the witness might be reluctant to volunteer ), but not on direct examination ( to " coach " the witness to provide a particular answer ).
In the 21st Century, questions about the environment have become increasingly politicized, with the Left generally accepting the findings of environmental scientists about global warming, and many on the Right disputing or rejecting those findings.
Oral historians generally prefer to ask open-ended questions and avoid leading questions that encourage people to say what they think the interviewer wants them to say.
Buddhism deals less with metaphysics and more with ontological questions and is generally not concerned with the existence of a creator God but focuses on a state called Nirvana ( see also Mu ).
Some important questions that such a hearing generally addresses are:
Old agencies and organizations have been expanded to address these questions, and new ones have been created, resulting in a bureaucratic web of agencies with no generally understood commitment to attack environmental problems directly.
The first five questions usually omit this rule, unless the contestant has guessed a wrong answer ( at which point, the host is hoping the contestant will take the hint ), because the questions are generally so easy that to require a final answer would significantly slow the game down ; thus, there are five chances for the contestant to leave with nothing if he or she were to give a wrong answer before obtaining the first guaranteed amount ; going for £ 1, 000 after winning £ 500 is the last point in the game at which a contestant can still leave with nothing.
The practice generally was that the jury rules only on questions of facts on guilt ; setting the penalty was reserved for the judge.
Teams are generally permitted to confer with each other on these questions.
Pyramid-style or pyramidal tossup questions include multiple clues, generally written so that each question starts with more difficult clues and moves toward easier clues.
ACF is untimed ; questions are generally much longer than CBCI questions.
Hicks later agreed that the model missed important points of Keynesian theory, criticizing it as having very limited use beyond " a classroom gadget ", and criticizing equilibrium methods generally: " When one turns to questions of policy, looking towards the future instead of the past, the use of equilibrium methods is still more suspect.
Specific words, phrases, and questions are also repeated frequently, generally to comic effect.

questions and math
At the college and high school level, most questions are on all general subjects, including literature ; history ; science and math ; social sciences ; fine arts ; geography ; religion, mythology, and philosophy ; and general knowledge.
The first murder she is known to commit occurs after Beverly attends a PTA where Mr. Stubbins ( John Badila ), Chip's high school math teacher, criticizes her son's morbid fascination with violent horror films and further questions the strength of family unit as well as recommending therapy for Chip.
The Sierra educational title Mega Math included a clone of Ataxx where the player must answer math questions in order to move.
The test is mostly multiple-choice, but there are 10 open-response math questions that require takers to enter their responses on a grid.
The multiple choice exams consist of 50 questions each, with the exception of math, which has 35 questions.
Thus the test effectively removes the element of chance afforded by a multiple-choice test while preserving the ease of automated grading ; answers are entered onto an OMR sheet, similar to the way grid-in math questions are answered on the SAT.
These usually consist of word jumbles, math problems and general-knowledge questions.
For example, a test of math achievement might order questions based on their difficulty and instruct the examinee to begin in the middle.
Miller stated " No one questions that listening to music at a very early age affects the spatial-temporal reasoning that underlies math and engineering and even chess.
Basic math questions must be answered in order to progress to the next level.
In toss-up questions, team members are not allowed to communicate with each other, and are given 10 seconds to buzz in, and 30 seconds plus the use of scratch paper if the question is a math question.
" At the time Leslie R. Wolfe, president of the Center for Women Policy Studies said girls scored differently on the math tests because they tend to work the problems out while boys use " test-taking tricks " such as immediately checking the answers already given in multiple-choice questions.
* a long-answer / essay section ( Part II ), which consists of either a selection of detailed questions for which the work must be shown ( for math and physical sciences ), or a set of essay topics, of which one or two must be written about in detail ( for the social sciences ).
The questions usually consist of basic math and English questions.
VI. A ) that math is evolving over time, there is " no reason to think it is converging to a definite structure, with fixed questions and established ways to address them ", and also that " The Radical Platonist position is just another metaphysical theory like solipsism ...
The questions are over a variety of topics including math, science, history, language, sports, current events, and common knowledge.

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