Word: humanities
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Soviet economy is not productive enough or big enough to provide for both military and consumer spending, the U.S. economy is not productive enough or big enough to support military and consumer spending and longterm economic infrastructure and human resource investment...
...result is that the Cold War and consumerism has diverted so much American money and attention from material and human resource development that early 21st-century America will almost certainly be affected adversely at home and abroad. But, then again, all this is in the future. And even doomsayers say that this foreseeable, unagreeable American future is (theoretically, at least) still largely avoidable...
...have already realized that their wounds are too serious to ignore much longer, and seem to have beaten an unwanted but tactical retreat. The United States, while maintaining a vigilant attitude, should now pay attention to its own different wounds--a fatal lack of long-term economic, industrial and human investments--before it is too late. Indeed, it may already...
...could have aborted the child or allowed doctors to try the same kind of white-blood-cell transplant after birth that had failed with their firstborn. But the couple, who prefer to remain anonymous, chose a historic third option: to let their child receive the first ever transplant of human fetal cells to a child in the womb...
...which their slate of candidates was chosen had been widely criticized as both undemocratic and politically biased. In a series of "pre-electoral" meetings, the academy's ruling presidium had narrowed a list of 121 nominees to 23, eliminating such proponents for reform as space scientist Roald Sagdeyev and human-rights activist Andrei Sakharov...