Word: needing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...need [a planetarium] at Harvard, we have an excellent one right there," said Professor of Astronomy Owen J. Gingerich, who has taken his Science A-17 students to the planetarium every fall for the last 20 years...
Scientists uniformly hail the appointment. Says immunogeneticist Leroy Hood of the California Institute of Technology: "Jim Watson has enormous experience in science politics, and superb taste. By sheer force of personality, he'll see that the project is run in an appropriate manner." Watson will need those skills to guide an effort that has generated controversy ever since its inception three years ago. The project aims to identify the specific site of every gene that sits on the 46 chromosomes in human cells; of an estimated 100,000 human genes, only 1,400 have been mapped...
...happens, a pressing need. Director Clint Eastwood's vision of the jazz scene of the 1950s is touched, appropriately, by the austere romanticism of '50s existentialism. It is a circle of sheltering darkness, where the time is always 'round midnight, the mood is always accepting (it's not why you play but how you play that counts), and even agents and club owners are basically benign. Trouble is always an intruder from outside -- a narc obsessed with pinning bad raps on musicians, society ladies slumming, rock 'n' roll making rude noises on the periphery -- attacking the soul when...
...Supreme Soviet Building. Three tanks circled the square and then drove off. Elsewhere, troops set up roadblocks on streets leading to and from Yerevan while others waited in armored personnel carriers at the edge of the city. "The violence is in Stepanakert," said an irate citizen. "Why do they need tanks here...
...visions. A vastly successful Wall Street commodities broker demands, "Why is ((the farmer)) a solid citizen? That's a myth. The myth is that land is good, right? Farmers work hard, right? That's also a myth . . . Ten years from now, there will be less farmers. We don't need them...