Word: piel
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...These big Reagan projects threaten theintellectual autonomy and academic freedom of ourresearch universities," said Gerard Piel '37,founder of Scientific American and former chairmanof the board of the American Association for theAdvancement of Science...
...these centers roosting on thecampuses, you won't have the standards ofexcellence among the faculty, and you will haveextraneous pressures from the outside affectingscholarship," Piel said...
...Government funding must return its emphasis tofunding smaller basic research projects where themajority of scientific breakthroughs come from,"Piel said...
...inaugural issue, the result of five years of discussions between the magazine's publisher, Gerard Piel, and Moscow officials, makes plain that editors in the U.S.S.R. will translate all articles and occasionally will include entirely new pieces by Soviet authors. More pointedly, notes Chief Editor Sergei Kapitsa, "we have the right, in consultation with the American editors, to remove any article of a given issue." Among taboo subjects: social and economic sciences and defense matters. The Soviet issue also excludes consumer advertising. The translation does, however, retain the original's colorful charts and photographs, thereby making...