Word: creation
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Apocalypse. He suspects that when man became an agricultural animal, the earth was ravaged worse than when he became a technological animal. "All living systems are irreversibly changed by almost any kind of experience," he writes, adding the hopeful corollary: "Destruction always results in a different creation...
...threshold of utilizing them [remotecontrolled aircraft] for selected missions." Presumably, McLucas was referring to Southeast Asia, the only place where U.S. planes are currently making strikes. His words only hinted at what the Armed Forces Journal calls "the hottest idea" currently being discussed by Pentagon strategists: the creation of a force of flying robots that could ultimately revolutionize aerial and indeed all forms of warfare. Some enthusiastic military thinkers are convinced that robot planes may have even greater impact on strategy than the atomic bomb...
...Plan provides for the creation of a central loan office for the entire University. R. Jerrold Gibson '51, current director of Student Employment and chief architect of the Plan, will be director of the loan office...
...begin to centralize a good many U.N. functions, perhaps even working toward a common budget, but that would mean taking back what has already been handed out-a political feat anywhere. Should Geneva become too cumbersome, however, U.N. officials are now working on another possible solution: the creation of another complex of scientific and technological agencies in Vienna...
...kind of technological expansion, there is a tendency on the part of progress-oriented thinkers to flip totally out and see lines going up or lines going down. It is more likely that the disintegration of one cultural structure is going to occur at the same time that the creation of another is going on, and that these things will be binary and paired and it won't be an either/or situation but both...