Word: questioningly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Congressional neglect, of public rights toward the nuclear power industry has been exacerbated by the Supreme Court and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Writing for the majority in Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power v. Natural Resources Defence Council (1978), Justice Rehnquist held that community and environmental representatives had no right to question either private industry spokesmen or agency officials about the quality and meaning of their data and findings at NRC licensing hearings. Rehnquist rode roughshod over the public, turning the administrative hearing procedure into an empty exercise where the hallmark of due process, the right to question adverse parties, was insensitively...
...citizenry's essential interest is not in knowledge per se but the social uses to which it is put. What is often kept from the citizen, in the form of knowledge, is social and political power. When demonstrations and controversies break out over seemingly esoteric technical questions, the underlying question, as Cornell University's Dorothy Nelkin puts it in a paper on "Science as a Source of Political Conflict," is always the same: "Who should control crucial policy choices?" Such choices, she adds, tend to stay in the hands of those who control "the context of facts...
...this man, and why is he saying all those nice things about the human race? The first question is simpler than the second. Lewis Thomas, 65, is a doctor and an administrator (currently president and chief executive officer of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City). He is a biologist, a researcher and a professor. He is a published poet and, quite possibly, the best essayist on science now working anywhere in the world...
...that Spectacular Bid was "better than Man o' War," and then asked the big, gun-metal gray colt to prove it. The Thoroughbred was whipped hard in almost every race, no matter how far ahead he was. He won every time, yet his very success raised a serious question: Had he been forced to peak prematurely...
...curious to see how it comes out." William B. Swislow '79, a Southern Africa Solidarity Committee member, said last night. "I'm not too sure on the question of the MIT Corporation's legal accountability about its policy. But it would be great if that kind of legal pressure brought results," he added...