Word: projects
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Despite such apparent benefits, many groups such as the Massachusetts Citizens' Rights Association, Inc., have lobbied against the state project since the plan's inception ten years ago. The group opposes fluoridation on the basis of individual rights, Elizabeth E. Dyer, secretary of the association, says...
...state environmental quality department last night held a public hearing on part of Harvard's $110 million Medical Area total energy project, but announced that it would postpone public consideration of the more controversial portion of the project--its facilities for generation of electricity...
Indeed, it was brainstorming that got the lab's first project-a study of sickle-cell anemia-off to a heady start. The Rockefeller scientists realized that any treatment for this genetic disease, which affects perhaps 2 million people around the world, had to be directed at stopping the characteristic sickling, or distortion, of the red blood cells that occurs after they unload their cargo of oxygen. But how? During cocktail-party chatter, Lab Director Cerami learned from a colleague that a byproduct of urea-a chemical called cyanate-can prevent sickling. Tests on both animals and humans confirmed...
...important reason for the plan's perilous passage through Congress was the misguided way the Administration had shaped up the program in the first place. In pledging to produce a National Energy Plan within 90 days of his Inauguration, and then turning the task into a semisecret crash project by a dozen staffers under Schlesinger, Carter overlooked an old truth: in Washington, people are more likely to support an idea if they have been able to help formulate it. In fact, the Administration had attempted to short-circuit opposition to many of its proposals by writing a variety...
...photography dusted off his cameras to shoot two models decked out in creations Blass calls "very romantic, à la Moulin Rouge." Highly positive about his negatives, Beaton says: "I shall continue to do a lot more. This was just the beginning." What made him agree to the project? "They were two very pretty dresses and two very pretty girls...