What it takes

Have you got what it takes?

To celebrate its 100th anniversary Woman's Weekly magazine reprinted its first edition, which included a feature on 'How to Become a Nurse'.

What it Takes to be Missing

At first glance, the predicate [be] missing appears to be an ordinary verb of absence 4 to be analyzed along the lines of Quine (1956) or more recent implementations and 5 alternatives.1 On closer inspection, though, this particular specimen turns out to give 6 rise to some surprising semantic complexity – which is what the present note is about. 7 As always with referentially opaque verbs, one...

Leadership: do you have what it takes?

Do you have what it takes?

The Childhood Apraxia of Speech Intensive Training Institute (Apraxia Bootcamp) was designed as a means by which our organization could strategically identify and intensively train qualified and interested speech-language pathologists in order to BOOST their clinical expertise in the diagnosis and treatment of CAS. It is intended to provide North American-based speech-language pathologists, who...

It takes the time that it takes.

It was five days before my first Christmas in Perth, Australia, and our family had begun to arrive the night before. As the rest of household slept, I quickly threw on a skirt and tank top and left to attend the memorial service for one of my study participants, a 57-year old Anglican minister who had died from motor neurone disease (MND). Though I feared I would be late, I could see people mil...