Word: 1960s
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Lurking behind the debate about out-of-sight overhead rates and suspicious- sounding bills for flowers and bedsheets is a deeper issue: the high cost of modern research. During the Sputnik era, Washington launched an ambitious university building program, which it abruptly abandoned in the late 1960s. Since then, private universities have had to raise their own construction and renovation funds. At the same time, they have had to grapple with unrealistic government regulations that require them to write off building costs on a 50- year timetable, despite the fact that most scientific facilities outlive their usefulness in just...
TODAY'S MEDIAPHOBIA is not limited to hostile statements by military officials. Many Americans find the press intrusive and annoying. The objections have their roots in the 1960s. The story goes something like this...
...only added to the myth of Vietnam as a war in which unchecked reporting from the front caused unprecedented public dissent, leading to ultimate defeat. By comparing Gulf War media rules to those in Vietnam, reporters have lent credibility to the accusations that they have fought since the late 1960s...
Kagan began studying psychological characteristics of children in the 1960s, when he gained access to a large set of psychological data on children from birth to age 15. Kagan assessed them at age 20, and the only quality that remained stable was shyness...
When Mikhail Gorbachev launched his own diplomatic offensive to resolve the Persian Gulf crisis last October, he asked his personal adviser, Yevgeni Primakov, to take on the task. Primakov, 61, was an ideal choice: as a correspondent for Pravda in the 1960s, he traveled extensively throughout the Middle East and met Saddam Hussein many times...