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  • There is some debate on the word count for Flash Fiction (The standard, generally-accepted length being under 1000 words) and Short Stories (usually under 2500 words).

    Finding the twist for your short story. « Write Anything 2009

  • One of the generally-accepted classes of filk is “songs about fandom and/or the experience of being a fan”.

    Kristine Kathryn Rusch » Janis Ian’s “Welcome Home”–for true fans everywhere 2010

  • Most industries have generally-accepted mark-ups over the cost of goods (for example, 100% in department stores, 200% for jewelry).

    Tips for setting a price on your product or service 2010

  • He also concluded the overall curriculum of the program indicated a “strikingly deficient and incorrect understanding of modern science, its methods, procedures, ways of knowing, and generally-accepted conclusions.”

    ICR throws in towel -- then reaches for another - The Panda's Thumb 2010

  • They used generally-accepted warfighting methods of the time.

    Avlon: Hate is cheap political tool 2010

  • A set of generally-accepted historical facts is presented, and a key issue in the remainder of the book is whether positing that Jesus was alive after having been dead (1) does best justice to the historical data, and (2) can be a legitimate historical inference.

    Review of Did The Resurrection Happen? A Conversation with Gary Habermas and Antony Flew James F. McGrath 2009

  • Spontaneous generation was not the view of one particular philosophical school in ancient Greece, but the generally-accepted viewpoint in many cultures up until the time of Pasteur.

    Spontaneous Generation in the Bible? James F. McGrath 2009

  • I'm generally in favor of professionalizing graduate students--not because I think they're DOOOOMED otherwise, but because I'm impatient with the gauzy, romanticized notion of the humanities that is often presented as the alternative and also because I support an understanding of our profession as a profession: a creative and rewarding one, to be sure, but one that benefits from generally-accepted standards of evidence, rules of comportment, and the like.

    Archive 2009-08-01 Flavia 2009

  • This is particularly so in matters where the general public may not know or understand the generally-accepted rules of medical ethics.

    Jacob M. Appel: Dr. Coburn's Peculiar Privilege 2009

  • I'm generally in favor of professionalizing graduate students--not because I think they're DOOOOMED otherwise, but because I'm impatient with the gauzy, romanticized notion of the humanities that is often presented as the alternative and also because I support an understanding of our profession as a profession: a creative and rewarding one, to be sure, but one that benefits from generally-accepted standards of evidence, rules of comportment, and the like.

    Ferule & Fescue Flavia 2009

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