Word: closer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first opportunity to tap a power source that will allow them to develop real industrial muscle. What most worries the have-nots is that the treaty's stipulations might impede their atomic progress; what most worries the U.S. and Russia is that each advance brings the have-nots closer to an atomic-weaponry potential. West Germany has a new "fast-breeder" reactor that generates electricity-and produces enough plutonium to build 36 A-bombs of Hiroshima firepower per year. According to some estimates, India's one existing reactor and three abuilding ones will make enough fissionable fuel...
...round his back. A policeman patrolling the garden comes by and knocks him with a stick. We expect to see a couple fall apart: instead the boy's own arms drop to his sides. There is a lady operator who suspects that the couple behind her have a relationship closer than street-hello acquaintance. The lady operator has no one. She strokes the white fur around her shoulders. There is a quick shot of the book burner's wife standing in front of a mirror with her hand on one breast. Each of them is missing some person. They long...
...Washington--something they have long looked forward to. One of the problems of our geographic location, he continues, is that when intellectuals go to work for the government they are separated from their academic work -- causing a kind of schizophrenia. Harvard has always supported the idea of closer relations between Cambridge and Washington as can be seen from a series of Harvard institutions -- the Graduate School of Public Affairs, the Center for International Affairs, the Neiman Fellows, and a number of Business School programs. Most professors at Harvard are no farther than one person removed from the policy-makers...
Lipset admits, however, that the closer one gets to the Government, the less critical one becomes: "you have friends in the Establishment and you realize the problems they face and the goodwill with which they make mistakes." There is no question that excess knowledge may inhibit criticism, and there are times when an outside, critical appraisal can be valuable to the Government in the long-run, he said...
...principal responsibility of the Joint Center will be in basic research. An essential, but secondary, objective is to build a bridge between fundamental research and policy application at national and international as well as local levels." Moynihan, however, seems prepared to shift the emphasis and bring the Center closer to the M.I.T. philosophy...