Word: academia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...problems were wrenching because academia and industry are fundamentally incompatible. Academics are concerned with the search for truth, no matter how irrelevant the subject may appear to be. Industry focuses on applied research, on developing a useful product and rushing it to market. Professors depend on openness of communication, on sharing news of discoveries to further the advancement of knowledge and research. Industry relies on secrecy, on keeping information about products and processes from competitors...
...innocently thought that only hard core right-wingers like Reed Irvine of Accuracy in Academia were policing the classrooms in search of heretics to denounce in public. I fervently hope my colleagues at this great bastion of academic freedom will not conclude from this incident that they should duck controversial issues to avoid being smeared in this fashion. Only a few days ago you reported a remark by a Tufts student who disrupted a speech by a Contra representative: "No free speech for Fascists." What we have here is a milder version of the that did serious damage to America...
...debate that reflects larger concerns over academia's place in society, faculty members at Stanford University yesterday discussed whether to abolish its required Western Culture program in favor of one including authors from a wider variety of traditions...
...smirk-ridden contemporaries leave for vacation for weeks on end without anything to do but say things like, "Hey, Pulier, want to...ooops...that's right you still have to take finals...tee hee...," we at Harvard have approximately 10 days of "vacation" during which the stench of academia looms ever present...
...gather the most informed opinion possible on the outlook, TIME last week conducted its own survey of 17 leading forecasters. They were chosen for their reputations and the accuracy of their past predictions. The economists represent academia, the financial community and business, and include several experts from Europe and Japan...