Word: controllable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...doubt on April 12 as he addressed 7,000 members of the American Chemical Society, who had crowded into a basketball arena in Dallas. When he was questioned, it became clear that his paper was sketchy because his technique was sketchy: he and Fleischmann had failed to do elementary control tests before going public. But it was fusion, Pons insisted, not just an unusual chemical reaction, as others had suggested. A Soviet group chimed in that day to say it had found its own neutrons. Indian scientists said the same. And on April 13, two graduate students at the University...
...antiabortion forces, who argue that scientific advances will invalidate Roe by making the fetus viable earlier in pregnancy. Susman pressed the notion that scientific progress had made the right to abortion impossible to disentangle from the right to practice contraception. He maintained that certain forms of birth control such as intrauterine devices act after the sperm and the egg have joined, a description that some medical experts dispute. But if accurate, then such devices in effect abort what the Missouri statute would define as a living being...
Having finally won one, Republican leaders insist that the momentum from Thomas' victory will help them regain control of the House in 1990. But the % Democrats' 260-to-175 advantage among incumbents seeking re-election, more than 90% of whom can count on winning, seems to make that a hollow claim...
...Arms Control. At the Reykjavik summit in 1986, Reagan stunned many of his advisers and allies by embracing the elimination of all nuclear weapons, a move that would expose Western Europe to the Warsaw Pact's overwhelming numerical superiority in troops and tanks. Bush has expressed far less enthusiasm for nuclear-weapons reductions and has suggested they may have to be conditioned on cuts in Soviet conventional forces...
...innings yesterday, Harvard's control of its destiny appeared to be in danger...