Word: conducting
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...conduct of affairs, meanwhile, the Federal Government is suffering from malnutrition. The Administration still has not nominated anyone for 77 senior Cabinet department positions. The Departments of Interior, Education, Labor and Health and Human Services have become nearly invisible.The Federal Aviation Administration's staff is still well below the level that existed before Reagan fired striking air controllers in 1981 and is using outmoded equipment to track near gridlock in the skies...
Most Harvard undergraduates do not fit the cliche that all students are apathetic. But an area that does deserve increased student attention is the conduct of the University we attend. The Undergraduate Council is the place to begin building this interest...
...Talmudic schools located near the Western (Wailing) Wall are teaching nearly 200 students the elaborate details of Temple service. Other groups are researching the family lines of Jewish priests who alone may conduct sacrifices. Next year an organizing convention will be held for those who believe themselves to be of priestly descent. Former Chief Rabbi Shlomo Goren, who heads another Temple Mount organization, believes his research has fixed the location of the ancient Holy of Holies so that Jews can enter the Mount without sacrilege. He insists, "I cannot leave this world without assuring that Jews will once again pray...
Perhaps the most celebrated case of scientific conduct (or misconduct, depending on whom you talk to) is the accusations that a 1986 article in Cell magazine contained fudged data. Dr. David Baltimore, the Nobel prizewinning director of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research at MIT, was one of six authors of the research paper on genetic transplants. Although Baltimore was never formally accused of any wrongdoing, a congressional investigation found the scientific equivalent of a smoking gun in the laboratory of one of his co-authors. Their research project was being funded in part by a grant from the National...
...current investigation finds Baltimore guilty of some improper conduct, Rockefeller's reputation will be seriously tarnished...