Word: creationism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...substance showed so much promise that Chu filed a patent application on Jan. 12. That promise was soon fulfilled. At the end of the month, after subjecting their creation to a series of heat and chemical treatments, Wu and his assistants began chilling a bit of the compound, by dousing it with liquid nitrogen, and sending an electric current through it. To their amazement, the sample's resistance began to drop sharply at a towering 93 K. Recalls Wu: "We < were so excited and so nervous that our hands were shaking. At first we were suspicious that...
...uninjured berries were quickly replanted, and the project proceeded without further incident, but the protest was symptomatic of the fierce controversy surrounding the open-air trials. They have become the focal point of a bitter debate over the creation of new organisms and the risks involved in releasing them. Most biologists have argued that the outdoor tests are a necessary first step that may help reduce the $1.5 billion lost by U.S. farmers each year to frost and may someday lead to the replacement of chemical fertilizers and pesticides with biodegradable, nonpolluting microbes...
Because Bok "in some sense" has lent support to the creation of a student center for graduate students, the council wants to know how he feels about supporting creating a similar establishment for undergraduates, Eisert said...
...whether it should have been made in the first place. I can't buy the line ((propounded by Secretary of State George Shultz)) that the Soviets have put us in a box, but it's a "wonderful box to be in." Dean Acheson titled his memoirs Present at the Creation. Well, if I'd been present at the creation of the zero option in 1981, we'd never have gone ahead with it, because it reduces the credibility of our deterrent. Nevertheless, that bridge has been crossed. We'd be in an impossible position if we didn't go forward...
...from official labor unions was rescinded in 1979 (about l million are now members). The law forbidding interracial marriage went in 1985. The hated passbooks, which sharply restricted a black's right to travel and find a new job, were abolished last year. Other, supposed reforms, such as the creation of two separate and powerless legislative chambers for South Africa's Asians and coloreds, were introduced but had little effect...