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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What sold Harvard and the other institutions on the notion of their own power plant was the concept of "total energy"--a new way to provide cheap and reliable power by producing electricity as a by-product of steam generation, Harvard officials claim. So 11 medical-related institutions in the area, collectively known as the Medical Area Service Corporation (MASCO) threw their chips in with "total energy" and decided to build their own plant in Mission HIll...

Author: By James Cramer, | Title: Blueprint for a Power Plant | 9/15/1975 | See Source »

...speeches at "The Field" this year all centered around Loyalty. Loyalty is a concept of much debate among the Unionists (those seeking to perpetuate union with the United Kingdom) since Enoch Powell, the Official Unionist M.P. from South Down said the week before that a proper Loyalist should be "loyal to the Crown in Parliament: the Parliament of the United Kingdom." Every Unionist faction had denounced Powell's commitment to Parliament by the Twelfth, supporting instead the "constitutional Protestant majority," for them the Crown...

Author: By Gregory F. Lawless, | Title: Britain, Orangeism: Pieces of the Ulster Puzzle | 9/15/1975 | See Source »

Neither the CDF nor the Advocacy Center was satisfied with the medical establishment's seeming disregard for the concept of informed parental consent, and Beckwith's continued agiatation on those political issues--notably clinical genetics and "psychotechnology"-- that he does not want to be "medicalized" has earned him enemies on the medical faculty...

Author: By Philip Weiss, | Title: Ending the Test for Extra Chromosomes | 9/15/1975 | See Source »

...basic Christian case against homosexuality is also founded on the concept of a natural order. Says German Theologian Helmut Thielicke: Homosexuality is in every case not in accord with the order of creation. Many theologians still

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOMOSEXUALITY: Gays on the March | 9/8/1975 | See Source »

...Henry Ford, of course, who combined Whitney's system of interchangeable parts and Taylor's concept of elementary operations to create a sequential system of chained work organized on mechanical conveyors or power-driven assembly-line manufacture. On Ford's assembly line, work was conveyed past files of semiskilled workers, and what began with the bare frame of the chassis ended, 300 feet and 93 minutes later, as a complete automobile. Man, time, pace and machine had become a unified whole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bicentennial Essay: The Clock Watchers: Americans at Work | 9/8/1975 | See Source »

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