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Word: actualizations (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ultimately serve us badly when they try to decide what kinds of knowledge are too dangerous to acquire. "It is one thing to ban the application of a certain technology--such as gun control or limits on DNA lab work--but it is probably unprecedented to ban the actual thought process creating that technology...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Dangerous Law | 11/1/1983 | See Source »

...subject to a thorough police investigation? Representatives of Mobilization for Survival insist that only researchers with classified Defense Department contracts will be scrutinized. But the law doesn't say that, and anyone, no matter how radical, can use the law to bring a suit. Even if this actual law does not significantly restrict research in one of the academic capitals of the world, it sets the dangerous precedent for similar provisions in the future...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Dangerous Law | 11/1/1983 | See Source »

...goal of these microscopic manipulations is to develop a vaccine that will fool the immune system and make it swing into action. A smallpox preventive that expresses a herpes trait, for instance, will provoke the body into creating antibodies against herpes. The person is then protectively armed against an actual attack of the disease...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Made-to-Order Vaccines | 10/31/1983 | See Source »

What if our government were privy to information that indicated the students in Grenada were in real danger? The majority opinion condemns too broadly the use of American force to safeguard American lives in any situation short of actual kidnapping or murder...

Author: By Melissa I. Weissberg, | Title: Avoiding Iran | 10/31/1983 | See Source »

While players advised their respective leaders throughout the developing scenario, the commanders made the actual choices. To expedite the game, the leader's decisions frequently went against the recommendations of the generally pacifist group...

Author: By Heather M. Townbend, | Title: Cambridge Residents Play Out Scenario for World War III | 10/31/1983 | See Source »

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