Word: dependency
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...infect bacteria and produce new viruses. He and his colleagues have little doubt that they will also eventually create "friendly" viruses and use them to cure disease rather than cause it?by using the viruses to stimulate the production of the chemical products upon which health and life itself depend...
...discuss issues with them, let alone share control of what they do. The matters, they contend, are technical and should be decided by the technical men who understand them. Even if government does enter the field, points out Daniel Callahan, much of the success of any ethical policy will depend on a responsible professional code. "If you depend solely on laws, sanctions and enforcements," says Callahan, "the game is over." Molecular Biologist Francis Crick is confident that basic morals and common sense will prevail. Some of the wilder genetic proposals will never be adopted, he claims, because "people will simply...
...design of the antipoverty effort. If not, their sniping and buffeting could make it an easy political target. As it is, they will have to answer for the state functions which invade the fiefdoms of local politics, structures which for years have taken poverty for granted. Their support will depend on the political coalitions pieced together in their own constituencies...
...their campus and see what the real world is like. Despite the niceties of intellectual bestiality, out there where men live, verbal violence and physical violence blend together into an unbroken continuum. Brave words are considered brave because of the physical commitment that lies behind them. But those who depend on the restraints of etiquette in order to escape the wrath of those they assault are only playing revolution. Such fakes are despised...
...organized by the Vietnam Veterans Against the War. Organizers of the April 3 action against the Pentagon, and the April 4 action against the Justice Department, will be trying to close down the institutions for as many hours as possible. They will probably be non-violent, but a lot depends on the actions taken by the police and military, which in turn will depend on how John Mitchell reacts to this assault against the government...