Word: drafting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Professors Kaysen and Kistiakowsky. Many students are familiar with this sort of involvement of natural scientists in war research, but fewer realize that the same kind of complicity exists in the social sciences. An outstanding example of the latter is Samuel P. Huntington, who justified the practice of "forced-draft urbanization" in Vietnam. In the July 1968 issue of Foreign Affairs, Huntington explained that the National Liberation Front held the "good Maoist expectation that by winning the support of the rural population it could eventually isolate and overwhelm the cities," and that the NLF would "remain a powerful and effective...
Arguing against the ERA, Smith said "the constitution is not a toy to be used for symbolic purposes." She warned that the ERA's passage would make women liable for the support of their husbands and for the draft...
...found myself getting terribly involved with getting an A-plus in motherhood. For several years, [during the war in Vietnam], my practice was limited to draft counseling in my kitchen," she said...
...Since it was created in 1970, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has been busily trying to protect everyone's health-except, apparently, that of its own employees. The oversight is documented in a draft report prepared by another federal watchdog agency, the General Accounting Office, after visits by inspectors to eleven of EPA's 60 laboratories. The report says that more than half the 1,329 scientists, technicians and other employees in these labs had been exposed to toxic and other hazardous substances without the safeguard of satisfactory health-monitoring services, which are required by law. One example...
...want to say a second thing about containment. That is that both the NIH guidelines and a recent environmental impact draft--and indeed virtually all my colleagues in the biology department of Harvard--assure us that the principal source of contamination would be the workers moving around...