Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...growth factor may be important for infants in underdeveloped countries with a low level of nutrution, said Dr. Michael Klagsburn, assistant professor of surgery at the Medical School who reported his discovery of the hormone in the current issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science...
Cambridge City Hall is not one of the world's more silent places and the Red Line extension fracus has certainly increased the decible level. Danehy has been leading the fight against the MBTA since it started and he maintains that the MBTA is out to force this project on the Cambridge community, any way it can. Cambridge is his lifelong home and Danehy pictures himself as the knight in shining armor, come to save the innocent maiden. Like others, the mayor can perceive the long-term advantages that extension offers but he hesitates to sanction the "destruction of Mass...
What this and all social security-integrated pension plans fail to take into consideration is the continuing high level of inflation. Dianne Bennett, former attorney advisor with the office of tax legislative counsel at the Treasury Department, suggests that this is the main argument against any type of integrated plan. She says even if social security were subtracted from 100 per cent of the pre-retirement average high wage base, inflation would still discriminate against the integrated plan recipient...
...service must struggle to survive. He or she will be expected to live on a pension of $208 a month plus $265 in social security--a total of $473 a month. The retired Harvard worker's yearly income will be less than $6000, or slightly above the national poverty level. Integration has become the cost-cutting tool that deprives the unprotected worker of the right to a secure retirement...
...special containment laboratory for recombinant DNA research. The new facility, tucked away on the fourth floor of the Biological Laboratories, is subject to some of the most elaborate safety requirements specified by government DNA research guidelines. The lab, known as a P-3 facility because it requires a high level of physical containment, now houses two Harvard research teams. Behind the reinforced glass doors, entered with a special magnetic identification card, the scientists are experimenting with the genetic code. At the same time, debate continues over another kind of code--safety regulations Harvard scientists must follow as they conduct their...