Word: growth
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...topic of Finch's formal talk, the problem of preserving the world's natural environment from the destructive effects of industry, technology, and population growth, aroused little controversy. Buthe was challenged on a number of issues in a question and answer period after the speech...
...Standing Committee-including seven Faculty members and six students-has also recommended that Harvard establish a research institute to be named the W. E. B. DuBois Institute for Afro-American Research. The institute would be "designed as a center for the growth and development of the study, of race relations and of black America in a historical and contemporary, political and social, economic and cultural setting...
...consider a lessened sense of teaching responsibility by their colleagues, especially in relation to undergraduates. Further, the quadrupling of the tenured faculty since the turn of the century has necessarily reduced the frequency and intimacy of contacts among faculty members, as has the increased specialization consequent on the explosive growth of knowledge. These considerations apply with even greater force to the junior faculty and teaching fellows, who have grown even more in numbers, and so many of whom are, and think of themselves as, merely transients with no strong lies to the community...
...French biologists refused to panic. Taking samples of the splotchy growth back to their lab near Paris, Biologists Marcel Lefevre and Guy Laporte found that they were teeming with microorganisms. Yet only one was multiplying massively enough to produce the ugly green discoloration on the cave walls. The culprit, the scientists report in the British journal Studies in Speleology, was a hardy, spherical alga called Palmellococcus...
...might be expected, many of these incestuous financial marriages turn out to be sterile. Prizing security above all else, Italy's interlocked industrial and financial titans have been reluctant to take the risks that are necessary to stimulate the country's economic growth...