Word: processers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...impact on our political system. Literally billions of dollars are spent each year to "lobby" legislators in Washington and to influence public opinion across the nation. The political activities of this wealthy sector of the American community--big business--cannot help but have a distorting effect on our democratic process. As Senator Kennedy has explained...
...pool capital, limited liability, and perpetual life. "The special status of corporations," argues Justice White, "has placed them in a position to control vast amounts of economic power which may, if not regulated, dominate not only the economy but also the very heart of our democracy, the electoral process...
...from Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado, with its lighthearted attacks on both monarchy and things Japanese. Others in a cast of tens were Emily Powell, daughter of the President's press secretary, Senate siblings, ambassadorial ingenues, and Alice Jay, whose grandfather, James Callaghan, was in the process of losing his prime ministership at show time. Their ensemble was joined by another from the Soviet embassy, including Katya Dobrynin, the ambassador's granddaughter, who enchanted the East-West audience with her folk dance. Forgetting their handles, the kids...
...Instead go in the other direction. Look for ways to get mutations more quickly, new variety, different songs." Continued genetic errors, after all, enabled the primeval strand of DNA to diversify into the vast spectrum of life. Humans have mimed this sloppy but productive process; "the capacity to leap across mountains of information to land lightly on the wrong side represents the highest of human endowments." With tongue in cheek, Thomas hails the arrival of the computer age; he looks forward to the bigger mistakes that the programming of bigger computers will make...
Thomas' "error," a word he traces back to an old root meaning "to wander about, looking for something," occurred in 1970, when he put together a short, casual talk on the phenomenon of inflammation and what it might represent as a biological process. He delivered it at a symposium held at Upjohn Co.'s Brook Lodge in Michigan. A member of the audience passed a copy of the speech to Dr. Franz Joseph Ingelfinger, then the editor of the New England Journal of Medicine. Ingelfinger had already roiled the academic waters by warning potential contributors that medical research...