Word: progress
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Most of the remaining critics were silenced last fall when the NIH chose the respected Watson as project director. Still, some scientists remain wary of the project. Says David Botstein, a vice president at Genentech and a member of the Human Genome Advisory Committee: "We need to test its progress, regulate its growth and slap it down if it becomes a monster. Jim Watson understands the dangers as well...
...fire down below in the ship as well; red-hot iron bars have been inserted into the huge block of wood that supports the wobbling foremast in the hope that the constriction of cooling metal will stabilize the structure, allowing for more sails and greater speed. A sluggish progress suddenly becomes a race against time...
...other areas, so that people can come to believe in the process. Psychologically, we have certainly started to live slightly better, and that's perestroika. But by heading off in every direction at once, as we have been doing for 3 1/2 years, we have hardly made any progress at all as far as the standard of living is concerned...
...there something in the Russian character that hinders progress in this country...
...problem derives from conditions that do not allow the Russian character to express itself. The Russian character is no weaker than the American character. We also have people with a flair for business, but, of course, in the matter of entrepreneurship, some of your executives have made quicker progress, thanks to entrepreneurship itself. We only started talking about socialist entrepreneurship in the past few years, thinking it a possible way out for ourselves. "Come on," we said, "move and think faster, and you'll get more profit for your enterprise...