Word: atomize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...policy that the Administration inherited dates back to the late 1940s, when the scientific resources that had been marshaled for World War II -- including the top-secret Manhattan Project, which built the atom bomb -- were reorganized to serve the period of economic growth (and the uneasy peace) that followed. Under a philosophy outlined by Vannevar Bush, science adviser to Presidents Roosevelt and Truman, the huge flow of public dollars allocated to cure diseases and fight the cold war was distributed according to a chaotic system dubbed "scientific pluralism." Basically this meant that the money was funneled through review boards manned...
...feeling this is really different stuff," says Dr. Francis Collins in his molecular-biology laboratory at the National Institutes of Health. Collins heads a mammoth effort to catalog the library of biological data locked in those threads, a challenge he compares, not inaccurately, with splitting the atom or going to the moon...
Hershberg's work tells the full story of how the chemistry professor who served as president of Harvard from 1933 to 1953 was a key advisor in President Franklin D. Roosevelt's decision to approve a crash effort to build the atom bomb...
...used to be a big world out there, and someone had to cover it. Now, it's a great big universe, from atom to galaxy. We'll be there. Will...
...huge atom smasher, an underground tunnel which will measure 54 miles in circumference, is located about 30 miles south of Dallas. The $11 billion project is one fifth complete and should be finished within a decade...