Word: limitless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that the political magic of money is limitless. Money can help make a candidate a household word-but it cannot guarantee that the household will vote for him. Too many other factors determine an election. No matter how much he might have spent on campaigning, it is most unlikely that Barry Goldwater could have defeated Lyndon Johnson for the presidency in 1964. In 1970, Industrialist Norton Simon, despite a bottomless purse, could not win the Republican senatorial nomination in California from the vulnerable, venerable incumbent, George Murphy. Regardless of his gifts, or the size of his war chest, a Republican...
...rights of an audience to free expression, according to this survey of judicial opinion, are considerable but not limitless. Ft the behavior of the audience violates the customs, of a meeting, warning is given, and intent to disturb is evident, the protections of the First Amendment have reached their limit...
...made of pairs of chemicals called bases, weakly joined at the center by hydrogen atoms. Only four different bases were used?adenine (A), thymine (T), cytosine (C) and guanine (G). But their sequence could vary so widely along the length of the staircase that they made up an almost limitless information-storage system, like the memory bank of a computer. In addition, because the bases were chemically complementary?that is, A paired off only with T, and C only with G?one side of the staircase was in effect a genetic mirror image of the other. Watson and Crick quickly...
...molecule that blocked a normal response (to seek darkness) instead of teaching a new reaction (to seek light). Most investigators doubt that a single memory molecule will be found, but they believe that molecular biology will eventually reveal the secret of memory. If so, the blue-sky possibilities are limitless. It might be possible to develop "knowledge pills" that would impart instant skill in French, tennis, music or math. McConnell jokingly proposes another idea: "Why should we waste all the knowledge a distinguished professor has accumulated simply because he's reached retirement age?" His solution: the students eat the professor...
...plasma physics, after a significant 1968 Soviet breakthrough in the containment of thermo nuclear power, U.S. scientists ran confirming experiments that suggested that "this almost limitless, pollutionless source of energy may be nearer than was once expected. But the U.S. effort is having funded at a level, cut back again this year, that could put off this development as much as 25 to 50 years." In the life sciences, research funds are still lagging some 20%, or at least $250 million per year, behind research capacity...