Word: fields
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fellowship provides a $14,000 stipend for each fellow to spend a year at Harvard, teaching in the humanities and researching in their academic field...
...Harvard has led the field of laser research and would probably benefit from increased funding in the area, Harvey Brooks, Pierce Professor of Technology and Public Policy, said yesterday...
...have such an ambitious goal. For any country, if it wants to develop itself, it must mainly rely on itself and its own potentialities. But it is also necessary to obtain capital from the developed countries [and] to learn from the experiences of the developed countries, especially in the field of management...
...unavailable because the 746-mile pipeline that carries it from Iran's Ahwaz field to Soviet ports on the Caspian Sea has been out of service since the field was shut down by Iranian strikers last autumn. The Soviets, who built the line in 1970, pay Iran more than $250 million annually for some 10 billion cubic meters of gas, which they distribute through branch lines to the whole of the Transcaucasus. Like their American counterparts, Soviet officials seemed at first to assume that the disruption of deliveries would be only brief, and little was done to arrange...
That absolute expanse might be difficult, even unbearable, to contemplate, like an infinite snow field of time, but the conception at least carried with it the serenity of the eternal. In recent decades, however, the Steady State model of the universe has yielded in the scientific mind to an even more difficult idea, full of cosmic violence. Most astronomers now accept the theory that the universe had an instant of creation, that it came to be in a vast fireball explosion 15 or 20 billion years ago. The shrapnel created by that explosion is still flying outward from the focus...