Word: experimental
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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A law professor who was an expert on interstate shipping studied the factory's trucking contracts. He found them overpriced and suggested putting them out for new bids. Savings: $90,000. Engineering professors, inspired by a campus air-conditioning system that uses 60° F underground water, designed one...
...alloys, ceramics) in conditions of weightlessness rather than on earth. There are also studies to see how humble forms of life adapt to space. For example, one inquiry will seek to learn whether sunflowers really need gravity to grow in their characteristically spiral patterns. Indeed, the flight's experimental agenda, involving the work of more than a hundred scientists, is so crowded that "science itself has become the reason for doing this mission," says Spacelab I Mission Scientist Rick Chappell...
In the end, Nestle's novel experiment in setting up a Commission to police itself does more for public relations than it does for dying babies. We should continue to drink Maxwell House rather than Taster's Choice until the company abides by the decisions of a truly objective body...
To the surprise of Turkey's military rulers, a careful experiment in guided democracy veered slightly out of control last week. In the nation's first elections since the armed forces took power in 1980, the wrong man won-at least in the eyes of the military. The...
WHY HAVE THE great Zionist hopes of Theodore Herzl and Chaim Weizman been tainted with so much bloodshed? In utilitarian terms, has the end justified the means? Here, Oz lets another bombshell drop. This time, it is calculated to offend, for he dabbles in the realm of the irrational--religion...