Word: experimental
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The experiment was "a way of teaching students about alcoholic consumption without preaching at them." Brother Robert Francis Beaulac, director of the Roman Catholic college's infirmary, said.
NASA is now conducting an experiment to see if photographs can help to trace from space the spread of toxic pollutants in San Francisco Bay.
Gone are the heady days of the '60s and early '70s, when the average annual growth rate of 4.5% allowed the Soviets simultaneously to augment their arsenal, invest in new factories and improve living standards. Says Economics Professor Holland Hunter of Haverford College: "A very stern experiment in...
Congressional elections tend to be a parochial mixture of personalities and local concerns, and are usually not settled by national issues. But to a large extent the national recession came home to America, like it did to Peoria, as a local issue this year. This was particularly evident in Michigan...
What all these governments have in common, beyond their conservative fiscal policies, is a remarkable fragility. They are for the most part coalitions that lack a broad-based electoral mandate. It is as if the voters wanted to experiment with a new approach to economic problems but withheld the authority...