Time may be an especially important consideration when it comes to developing new medications or revising the usage instructions for existing ones.
The revised "Modern English Usage" has become a best seller since its publication in May (about 100,000 copies), both in England & America.
But the transfusion numbers suggest that dialysis providers, driven by the revised incentives and new usage guidelines, have yet to find the right medication level for some patients.
In October last year, reflecting popular usage, it revised the wording of this advice, so that "avoid all screens under age two" became "avoid solo media use in this age group".
In the half-century of its public life "the little book" has been a constant companion for millions of people, most of whom know it simply as "Strunk and White". It is scarcely so encyclopedic as H.W. Fowler's "A Dictionary of Modern English Usage" (1926, revised 1965 by Sir Ernest Gowers) but it is distinctly and distinctively American, and its brevity renders it both portable and accessible.
Assuming that semantic computational chemistry becomes widespread, the dictionaries will act as a catalyst to those communities to add more terms and to revise the precise usage of the concepts.
The New Yorker, August 14 , 1965P. 20 Talk interview with Sir Ernest Gowers, distinguished British civil servant & amateur grammarian, who revised Fowler's "Modern English Usage" (first published in 1926) for the Oxford University Press.
By John Bainbridge The New Yorker, August 14 , 1965P. 20 Talk interview with Sir Ernest Gowers, distinguished British civil servant & amateur grammarian, who revised Fowler's "Modern English Usage" (first published in 1926) for the Oxford University Press.
And in 1965, when he revised Fowler's Modern English Usage, he quoted the following sentence to demonstrate the problem: "There must be opportunity for the individual boy or girl to go as far as his keenness and ability will take him".
Valve events (the timing of valve movements with the piston) were also revised to promote efficient steam usage and the wheels were re-balanced to reduce hammerblow.
