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Dates: during 1970-1979
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President Carter's proposed budget for 1980 increases basic scientific research funding by about 9 per cent, a rise which could make more research money available to Harvard professors...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Budget Boosts Funds For Science | 2/8/1979 | See Source »

Despite the large number of volunteers at PBH, the turnover rate is estimated to be as high as 50 per cent. Manos attributes the drop-out figures to volunteers' other academic and extracurricular activities. "I haven't known many people who dropped out for other reasons," she says...

Author: By Miriam F. Clark and Larry Grafstein, S | Title: PBH: Finding More To Life Than Machiavelli | 2/8/1979 | See Source »

Kendall said that non-electric forms of solar energy might supply about 10 per cent of total U.S. energy demands by the year...

Author: By Stephen A. Herzenberg and William A. Schwartz, S | Title: Federal Report Says Solar Electricity Will Be Unimportant Till Next Century | 2/3/1979 | See Source »

...bullish" on photovoltaics and that his panel's report has been regarded as optimistic about the long-term prospects of solar electricity. He noted that the Office of Management and Budget, with knowledge of the report's conclusions, has increased the budget for photovoltaics about 25 per cent...

Author: By Stephen A. Herzenberg and William A. Schwartz, S | Title: Federal Report Says Solar Electricity Will Be Unimportant Till Next Century | 2/3/1979 | See Source »

...captains Glenn Fine and Bob Hooft played their customary prominent roles, pumping home 18 points apiece. Fine, whose six assists was the highest total on either side, shot a scorching 73 per cent from the field...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: Hoopsters Defeat Cornell; Snap Twelve-Game String | 2/3/1979 | See Source »

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