A University of California researcher, for example, was told to "cleanse" the abstract of his grant proposal of words like "gay," "homosexual" and "transgender".
A short proposal of less than 1,200 words was submitted using a secure web-based portal.
It is a sign of the times that repeal of the consensual sodomy law passed the Republican-controlled Senate three years running as a part of Mr. Pataki's sexual assault reform proposal, without a word of protest on the Senate floor.
The formulation of the proposal required creative wording, due to the lack of an explicit public health competence.
Meanwhile, the academics have been busy parsing old letters by the drafters of the Bill of Rights and deconstructing proposals for the wording of the Second Amendment.
And when you consider that the offending footage was gathered on a research trip to assess the viability of the programme proposal – in other words without prima facie evidence the project might not go ahead at all, with all that might mean for the journalist and the cause he supports – there was even greater reason to test the strength of the material on offer.
According to this proposal, use of the words … of pain, … of itches, … of tickles, and so on should be construed irreferentially, as simply a way of classifying the experience in question.
Thus, in Church's proposal, the words 'recursive function of positive integers' can be replaced by the words 'function of positive integers computable by Turing machine'.
The proposed tool is based on published rule-based algorithms, with some new proposals, especially in the treatment of words with diphthongs and hiatus.
The volley of proposals, particularly word this week that President Obama is considering a tax on big banks to recoup billions of dollars in federal aid, has blindsided many banks.
