Word: fletcherism
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Coming only months before the penultimate Apollo shot,* Nixon's decision sets up an important new technological goal for NASA and the depressed aerospace industry. NASA Administrator James Fletcher estimates that work on the shuttle will restore about one-fourth of the 200,000 space-related jobs that have disappeared in the past five years. There will also be a resurgence of activity at Houston's Manned Spacecraft Center and the Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama, which will share responsibility for the program...
...sponsor the eight and final informal poetry reading tonight at 8 p.m. in the Advocate House, 21 South Street, Margo Taft and Richard Edleman will read from their works. The reading is free and refreshments will be served. Person interested in reading in the Spring series should contact Chris Fletcher...
...movement began in the 1960s with a group of writers who championed "contextual" or "situation" ethics. As defined in a widely read book by Episcopalian Joseph Fletcher, situation ethics holds that there are always circumstances in which absolute principles of behavior break down. The only valid ethical test, the argument goes, is what God's love demands in each particular situation...
Wilson--who was Prime Minister from 1964 to 1970 and is now leader of the Labour opposition in Parliament--is delivering the Clayton Memorial Lectures for the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, a joint project of Harvard and Tufts
...years back, Czech Director Ivan Passer made Intimate Lighting, which was acclaimed for its warmth and comic invention. In Born to Win, Passer seems a good deal less sure of himself-perhaps because he is working in America for the first time. He handles his actors well-Segal, Fletcher and Black are all exceptionally effective-but he shows no understanding of the social forces that eventually engulf the characters. The film's final scene is, unhappily, less resolution than stalemate. Worse, it has ceased even to matter which alternative J. will choose...