His most recent plan is a blueprint for Brazil's armed forces an unusual task for a man whose previous life involved writing long, gnomic books about "the radicalisation of indeterminacy .There are some traces of the philosopher in his "National Defence Strategy".
The experiment itself was simple: a hundred and forty-five undergraduate students were given a standard test of creativity known as an "unusual use" task, in which they had two minutes to list as many uses as possible for mundane objects such as toothpicks, bricks, and clothes hangers.
At the same time, Mr. Giuliani's campaign — seeking to accomplish the unusual task of persuading Republicans to nominate an abortion rights supporter — is eyeing a path to the nomination that would try to de-emphasize the early states in which abortion opponents wield a great deal of influence.
This, then, was the unusual task for Bernie.
For the moment, however, United face the unusual task of overtaking Leicester, whom they meet at Filbert Street on Saturday week.
During May 1946, three of No. 38 Squadron's Dakotas were assigned the unusual task of flying 25 tonnes of pig bristles from Chongqing in China to Hong Kong, from where the bristles were shipped to Australia.
The unusual task was possible, said Larry Silverstein, because it was designed to allow for "entire portions of floors to be removed without affecting the building's structural integrity, on the assumption that someone might need double-height floors".
One interpretation of this dissociation is that both sensorimotor integration and attention are directed predominantly toward auditory feedback during normal speech, whereas attention is divided between the 2 sensory modalities during the unusual task of syllable repetition.
Eileen Elliott Dear Diary: New York doormen are called upon to perform many varied and unusual tasks for tenants.
