Word: provenances
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...people's lobby, exercises unique new methods for precipitating governmental change: a mixture of political guerrilla warfare by the membership and frontal assault by lobbyists in Washington. This combination of savvy political lobbyists working directly on Capitol Hill, and a large membership pressuring their individual Representatives and Senators has proven an extremely effective method of promoting change. John Gardner, founder of Common Cause, believes that there is no more effective means of making a politician act responsibly than by letting him feel that he is being watched...
...publication of Darwin's Origin of Species was a "great" event in science. Evolution is neither a science nor a history, but rather an antiChristian, anti-theistic way of thought. It is nothing more than a theory. TIME would lead the reader to assume it is a proven fact...
...simplicity, the purity of the idea has proven irresistible. After being picketed and besieged by mail, the Justice Department became the league's first convert. Attorney General John Mitchell agreed to deport the Mafia-as a word, that is. In a confidential memo the Mitchell kiss of death was to be reserved not for the Mob, but for all Justice Department employees who used the terms Mafia and Cosa Nostra officially. The league subsequently persuaded the film makers of The Godfather, which is about practically nothing but the Mafia, to excise the hated term from their screenplay. That...
...criminal to speak without rewarding him with a tenured position. Does "gross misconduct" under the Statutes of the University extend only to University matters? Can the University simply wash its hands of, or in the case of Kissinger, openly condone crimes against humanity, if such crimes are proven? Certainly the University range of faculty appointments must be as wide as possible, but it would seem that an institution dedicated to the tattered and threatened values of humanity and civilized conduct must set some limits. Perhaps the perpetuation of war crimes, once again properly investigated and proven, is one of those...
...cancerous cells to stop growing. Transmitting such orders may be difficult. DNA programmed to carry the command would be digested almost immediately by the body's enzymes if it were injected into the bloodstream, thus making conventional methods of administering medication impractical. But RNA viruses, which produce DNA, have proven their ability to move directly into the cells and could easily carry such communications. Scientists speculate that benign viruses could be made in test tubes with proteins and synthesized RNA. The viruses, injected into the body, would home in on the cancerous growth and shut down the cells' runaway reproductive...