Word: control
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...scientific community still has a chance to clean up its act before Congress gets its clumsy hands into the laboratory. Perennial admonitions to the scientific community have not gone completely unheeded. Many universities and mega-laboratories have instituted guidelines to control the more destructive consequences of scientific competition...
...common anti-Semitic sentiment is that a network of powerfully placed Jews conspires to control the world. At their worst, members of fraternities such as Sigma Alpha Mu seem to wish that such a network existed so they could take advantage...
...concepts ofoccultism and New Age religion. History is rifewith stories and reports of witch-hunts, initiatedand perpetuated by hysterical masses desperated todefeat the all-powerful supernatural. A centralissue to address, then, is the need for people tocontrol these supernatural forces of witchcraft.Did the people they targeted as witches haveunnatural control over their surroundings? In mostcases in colonial America, the accused witches didnot have excessive personal or social power.However, their victims, as well as the hystericalcommunity, perceived them as having some level ofcontrol that both the victims and the communitylacked. The late 17th century witch-hunt at Salem,Massachusetts, provides...
During the past year, SPOA has played an increasingly active role in city politics. In recent weeks, the group has picketed city council meetings, urging passage of the anti-rent control referendum known as Proposition 1-2-3 and opposing the liberal Cambridge Civic Association, which currently holds a four-member minority on the council...
...trying to make life politically difficult in the city for Harvard," Natale said. "We'll oppose Harvard...with respect to the status of their rent control-exempt affiliated housing, the money they pay the city in lieu of taxes and their land acquisitions...