Word: nationals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...only have such policies represented a substantial threat to academic freedom, they have also hindered national security. Broad controls on scientific and technological information have proven extremely damaging to the American economy as well. Japan has overtaken us in the race to develop superconductors partly because of the Reagan Administration's counter-productive attempts to restrict the free exchange of technical information with foreign scientists, a policy which has merely made research more difficult in this crucial field. A 1987 report by the National Academy of Sciences estimated that the current level of export controls cost the economy...
...Shattuck report addresses only half the problem that Bush must face in revitalizing the nation's economy. If the United States is to compete effectively in the world market, it must, at the same time as it loosens the classification and export control strictures, strengthen the protection of intellectual property rights...
This movement is an old one, and it has been embraced by some of the nation's 30 million people who could be described as Black. Black-run newspapers and radio stations have been using the term with regularity, while the Boston Globe is allowing its individual writers the freedom to choose their preferred term...
...Civil Rights movement began to blossom in the fifties: the Supreme Court threw out the "separate but equal" doctrine and ordered school desegregation in the 1950s. Rosa Parks refused to sit in the back of the bus in the 1950s. Martin Luther King rose to national prominence in the 1950s. And a man from Missouri, Harry S. Truman, desegregated the nation's armed services...
...particularly delighted to announce the election of a woman to the Corporation," President Bok said in a release. "Our ten-month nation-wide search brought to the attention of the Board an outstanding group of men and women. Of them all, Mrs. Hope appeared to possess the special combination of training, experience and personal attributes that we were seeking...