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...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...
After an hour of working through sample determinations of fair net profit for landlords the two interpretations were no nearer agreement. Cronin maintained, "Mr. Shaw's figures are all mixed up." Shaw stated that a fair return for landlords would be nearer eight or nine per cent than...
...international relations that the additional instructor is needed: apart from Social Sciences 112, only four half-courses are offered this year for undergraduates in International Relations. More important, the decision moves the Government Department one step further from being a group of scholars and teachers and one step nearer being an exclusive club for men of affairs, operated for the benefit of its members. Apparently, for the senior members of the Department a tenured position has become a sinecure to be held as a right, involving no responsibilities toward the students of the department or the University. Obviously the precedent...
Perhaps one is simply nearer to functional reality away from the city, and that is what is so nice. So that if one might always walk around with blueprints documenting all the systems under city asphalt: water pipes leading to fire hydrants and toilets and bathtubs, and gas mains going to stoves, and electric and telephone lines to everywhere, and subway, tunnels taking people places, with purposes, city life might be a thrilling adventure. Or as I have hoped, if I could really understand just how electricity works, really understand about electrons and shared bonds and all that... in other...
Personal Distance. The psychologists had expected their spokesman to be most persuasive from the middle distance, five to six feet. Any nearer approach would invade what Northwestern University Anthropologist Edward T. Hall and others have called "personal distance"-an invisible sphere that most animals, as well as man, consider off limits to strangers. The greatest separation corresponds to "public distance": presumably far enough off to discourage personal communication. To Albert and Dabbs, five to six feet seemed just about right, being neither too close for comfort nor so far off as to present only a modest claim on the subject...