Word: confrontation
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...keeping themselves informed of developments within the scientific community. In the case of recombinant DNA, Lear echoes many scientists' calls for risk-assessment experiments so the debates on safety can be based on fact rather than speculation. The recombinant DNA battle shows that scientists and the public should not confront one another, but should cooperate to achieve a mutually beneficial goal, the original goal of science--the betterment of the human condition...
...many new people. But in an already cluttered, lengthy novel, this endless procession of new characters does little more than add confusion and tedium. Even Isabel's closest friends--Eleanor, a flighty sensualist, and Liz, a strong-willed lesbian--are not terribly interesting until they are forced to confront each other...
Tomorrow, The Kennedy School, which attempts to teach its students to deal with political reality, will have to confront some political reality itself: protest. The Southern Africa Solidarity Committee and the Black Students' Association will demonstrate against the School's acceptance of Engelhard money which was made by exploiting black miners. It could perhaps be called a lesson in applied ethics...
Brooke denied the charges and asked for an immediate opportunity to confront Wertheimer at an open meeting of the committee...
...five-lecture series will cocentrate on specific learning situations which confront every new teacher including the lecture, the section, the seminar and the tutorial...