Word: fostering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...country's most decorated men. But he remained unknown because his honors were bestowed in secret. In those years, Sakharov believed he had a useful function: "When I began working on this terrible weapon, I felt subjectively that I was working for peace, that my work would help foster a balance of power...
...seven-month, $11 million Trans-Antarctica Expedition was conceived by wilderness lovers Will Steger, 45, a Minnesotan who earlier led a historic dogsled trek to the North Pole, and Jean-Louis Etienne, 43, a French physician. Their purpose was to draw attention to the increasingly endangered continent and to foster the international cooperation that can preserve it. The team, whose other members come from the Soviet Union, China, Japan and Britain, is conducting a variety of studies. Among them: recording ozone levels, air temperatures and wind speeds, and taking samples of snow that will be analyzed for pollutants...
...science foundation said in a statement that it had given Meselson the award as part of an effort "to honor scientists and engineers whose exemplary actions, often taken at significant personal cost, have served to foster scientific freedom and responsibility." It will be presented at a meeting in February...
...want him to succeed," the president said. "Because we do admire the people in the Soviet Union. And we know that ours is an historic opportunity to foster the peace." Bush expressed hope that "ours can be a future free of both tyranny and fear...
...text of a fake draft notice sent by Harvard's Committee on Central America (COCA) to some 900 male undergraduates this week. According to a statement by the committee, the false induction orders "were intended to raise consciousness and foster debate" about U.S. involvement in that country...