Word: developement
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...many ways, the battle over recombinant DNA regulation begins and ends in Cambridge. In the early 70s, as recombinant DNA technology rapidly developed, scientists began to consider the potential risks of genetically combining organisms with different characteristics. Scientists petitioned the NIH, the federal agency that funds most scientific research, to develop a set of guidelines for recombinant DNA research. When Harvard proposed to build the $600,000 special research laboratory three years ago, then-Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci heard about the recombinant DNA safety debate and questioned whether scientists should be allowed to perform recombinant DNA experiments in Cambridge...
...July, has already left his mark on the department. He has emphasized the need for personnel training not only in supervisory skills, but also in new crime prevention and protection techniques. For the first time since its existence, the police department is providing its officers with the opportunity to develop their skills through attendance at one-week course programs in the Boston area. Drug education and enforcement, arson investigation, rape victimology and crime scene search are just a few of the areas in which officers have received instruction over the last few months, and Chafin expects the training program...
...leap to see what it was like or to prove something to themselves, to overcome that perfectly sensible fear of diving from an airplane into a void above the hard ground. If they stay with it, and perhaps only 10% do after the first scary jump or two, they develop what Kim Adams, 31, a graduate student in anthropology at Rutgers, calls "parachuting personalities, incredibly independent, uninhibited." Sky diving becomes a way of life, infinitely challenging, indescribably energizing...
Iacocca says that he would like to see his new employer develop a "sports car," suggesting that something like the Mustang, which made Iacocca's reputation as a marketing whiz at Ford, may be in Chrysler's future. Iacocca is also expected to inject some new pep into the company's dealer organization. The real test of Iacocca's ability will be in how well he can maneuver within the narrow limits imposed by Chrysler's tight financial circumstances. The auto industry has changed dramatically since he introduced the Ford Mustang in 1964: costs...
Another problem is whether farmers can keep up the rate of technological innovation that has made U.S. agriculture the productivity wonder of the world. So far, agricultural tinkerers are continuing to develop new techniques and devices. One of them: a herbicide sprayer with a receiver that catches any spray that does not hit a plant and recycles it into the pump, economizing on spray and preventing pollution of the ground. Another innovation is an irrigation system that covers even more ground than a center-pivot machine; it is a diesel-powered contraption that pushes a boom a half mile long...