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...There are areas of social reform which are forwarded by research in abortion, families and so on, and [the Reagan administration] figures it can stop the reform by dismantling certain social sciences, Kenneth Pruitt, a director of the New York-based Social Science Research Council, said...
...They are stabbing us right in the heart of the discipline; it's as if they were taking a telescope away from an astronomer," Kenneth Pruitt, who helps direct the New York-based Social Science Research Council, said this week...
...Pruitt said surveys such as the General Social Survey, directed by James A. Davis, chairman of the Sociology department, and funded by a $300,000 NSF grant, "is clearly in danger of disappearing...
...Pruitt does his share of lurking behind beefy blockers as well. "I can position myself behind my blockers so that a defensive guy has to commit himself just to see where I'm at," Pruitt says. "It's a cat-and-mouse game. He shows up on the outside, I go inside. He shows up inside, I go outside." So far, the mouse is winning; with 761 yards rushing, Pruitt is on his way to his third straight 1,000-yd. season...
Even when the uniforms fit, survival is difficult. Pruitt puts on "a lot of jukes and lateral movement" so that he does not get hit head on. "It's just like two trains colliding-the smaller one is going to take the most punishment." Johnson stares upfield at "an immovable mountain" and pours on the speed to run around it. St. Louis Cardinals Wide Receiver Mel Gray (5 ft. 9 in., 175 Ibs.) dislocated a shoulder trying to take out a bigger man and has since left the blocking to others. "Trying to be a hero, I ran into...