Word: becton
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...while the private scholars in turn teach courses at the universities. "Teaching a course forces me to go through the [scientific] literature and stay up to date," says A.G. Swan, who instructs grad students at N.C. State in addition to his duties as president of the research center for Becton, Dickinson & Co. People who work in the enclave like the quiet, hassle-free atmosphere. Says a chemist: "This is the southern part of heaven...
...happily, expounding on the virtues of his "Voluntary Sterilization Bonus Plan," oblivious to all. But nobody is willing to do that. Instead college students have this habit of trotting him out under the guise of free speech, to debate something that most of them--like the 600 protesters outside Becton Hall at Yale last week--know already; the non-relativity of racism. The only thing different from Princeton, Indiana or Nebraska was that the Yale hosts concocted even more of a sham...
...been executed in North Carolina since 1961 or in the U.S. since 1967. In his appeal for Fowler, Attorney Charles Becton of Chapel Hill will argue that the death sentence not only violates prevailing standards of justice but is also still being capriciously applied. Fowler could just as easily have been convicted of manslaughter or second-degree murder, neither of which now carries the death penalty. "If they kill me," says Fowler, "it'll be nothing more than premeditated murder...
...Irving M. London, director of the program, said yesterday that the gift from Becton Dickinson and Company will be used to endow two term professorships--one at Harvard...
...Destroyer. All the manufacturers of hypodermics have tried to supply their customers with easy ways of getting rid of the needles. One of the simplest: "Destructip," a 10? device for bending and breaking needles offered by Becton, Dickinson & Co. for individual users such as diabetics. For hospitals and doctors' offices, some manufacturers build a tip destroyer into the wall of the carton. Once the needle has been used, the nurse or technician inserts it in a metal slot in the side of the carton and bends it to break off the point...