Word: environmental
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sir: We at Harvard New College have to take issue with some of your comments, especially those about the "intellectual hierarchy that is basic to learning" [June 6]. We don't reject that intellectual hierarchy "in effect," as you said-we reject it explicitly. The intellectual hierarchy stifles creativity...
Inflation is to the economy what pollution is to the environment-a corrosive force that unbalances everything. Though 16% of the nation's plant capacity stands idle, businessmen have been expanding their factories at a record rate, buying machines and materials now to beat further price rises and economize...
Historic Obligation. More aggressive members of Congress, many of them youngish liberals, want Capitol Hill to act more vigorously on urban ills, poverty, pollution of the environment, education and health services, and many other problems. For activist Democrats, particularly, a cautious Republican Administration seemed to offer an opportunity to make...
In response to criticism from the Committee on Back Contamination, a group of scientists representing a variety of federal agencies, NASA has improved the complex quarantine procedures in Houston's $15.8 million Lunar Receiving Laboratory (TIME, Dec. 29, 1967), where the returned astronauts and their lunar samples will spend...
In almost every area to which our attention has turned, we have repeatedly encountered one fundamental problem: the absence of some central authority within the university that is fully equipped to respond to demands, anticipate problems, formulate policies, and co-ordinate university efforts with respect to matters that implicate the...