Word: basics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...their representatives. After all, neither candidate has cared to address the seriousness of poverty or propose explicit solutions. Dukakis has certainly gotten closer than Bush; he'll speak of "people without health insurance" or "people without housing." But neither can utter the word "poor" in the context of improving basic social policy...
...coming peace and continued war. Substantial numbers of refugees, some from as far away as Pakistan, are returning to their homes in villages along the valley. The Council of the North, a local body organized by Massoud, continues ; to set up schools and clinics and to broaden basic administration for the region...
Greater cooperation between the FDA and pharmaceutical companies is the key to the new plan. Before a drug can be approved in the U.S., its manufacturer must guide it through a gauntlet of testing, moving from basic laboratory experiments through animal research to carefully controlled experimentation on people. Under the system in use until now, FDA investigators did not begin evaluating the evidence until the human trials were almost finished. If the research methods or the results did not meet FDA requirements, pharmaceutical companies had to perform more testing, sometimes starting all over again. Now manufacturers...
Glashow, whose expertise lies in elementary particle physics--the study of both the basic elements of matter and the forces which hold them together--encounters a problem which other popularizers of biology, astronomy and evolution have not: the inherent abstractness of particle physics. Whereas most people wonder at the changing phases of the moon or the workings of their own bodies, few wonder how an atom is constructed, simply becuase they have never seen an atom...
...meeting we had with Dean Spence and President Bok at the end of the spring term, they made known their agreement with the basic ideas of the report and their decision to follow our suggestion and form a Senior Faculty Committee to study this issue. The Committee would come up with specific recommendations which would then be considered by the Faculty in full...