Word: acclaim
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Defenders of the project predict there will be solid scientific findings and benefits, but even if there are not, so what? Inventor Paul MacCready, who has won both public praise and scientific acclaim for designing the human-powered flying machines known as the Gossamer Condor and Gossamer Albatross, contends that the true measure of a project's value is not whether it produces hard data but whether it provokes the human mind. "Who can say Lindbergh's flight was scientifically important?" he asks. "There was no new land discovered, and if you asked at the time, people might have said...
...alarm, and especially for his proposed cure, Lederman was not immediately overwhelmed by acclaim -- either from fellow scientists or from Congress. The Bush Administration had already requested a generous increase in the science budget, critics noted. Lederman's call for a doubling of financial support at a time of severe budgetary restraint, they charged, made scientists seem petty and self-serving and suggested that they are out of touch with the country's political realities. In fact, only last year congressional budgeteers agreed to limit spending growth for domestic discretionary funding, in effect making science a "zero-sum" category. This...
...scaling Olympus and makes a popular comedy-drama such as Annie Hall or Hannah and Her Sisters, he feels a little cheap, like the Whore of Mensa (the main character and title of one of his funniest short stories) -- as if he has undersold his gifts to win easy acclaim...
...principle of choice that was endorsed by George Bush in his education package last month. To compete for students, the district hired hundreds of new teachers, set up magnet schools and began offering special courses in subjects like calligraphy and theatrical-lighting design. The ^ program brought Richmond national acclaim -- and a deficit of up to $29 million...
...that U.S. autos are gradually catching up to Japanese standards. "American cars have improved tremendously in the past 10 years," says Robert Knoll, director of the auto test division of Consumers Union, which publishes Consumer Reports magazine. He notes that certain American models, such as the four-cylinder Plymouth Acclaim-Dodge Spirit twins or the full-size Buick LeSabre, are on a par with average Japanese quality. Yet Detroit, overall, "still has a ways to go, because the Japanese keep improving too," he says. For example, Consumer Reports noted in April that new U.S. cars had only a third...