Word: quests
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Pleading for the SSC before Congress, researchers like Lederman used the Ultimate Quest argument; others spoke of retaining America's leadership in science and technology, or of the jobs SSC would generate, or of practical spin-offs, including improvements in superconducting materials and computer software. Nonetheless, the project's super price tag -- originally estimated at $5 billion but up to $11 billion at last count -- was a perpetual and powerful counterargument. Specialists in other fields of science, and even different areas of physics, resented such largesse being heaped on a | relatively small number of researchers at a time of national...
Defining feminism as the quest for "full political and legal equality of women," Paglia argued that "the real revolution has been lost." She attacked the current "cashmere sweater and pearls--yuppie genteel" feminism...
...became well known in Prague avant garde theatre. For Havel, absurdist theater presents the individual's life and place within society in modern times. It also provides the framework in which to realize the loss of meaning within society. All of Havel's plays are concerned with the quest for truth and the destruction of personal responsibility. Havel's major theme, in his writings as in his life, is the negation of value and the moral imperative for action by each individual. These are themes he shares with other writers of contemporary Eastern Europe such as Milan Kundera or Czeslaw...
That a good number of Black and non-Black students attended this occasion was a marvelous tribute to DuBois' life-long quest to cosmopolitanize the American psyche and to root out its twisted nativisms. Martin L. Kilson Thomson Professor of Government
...LIGHTWEIGHT EIGHTS: The men's shells are chasing a time of 14:45.1 in their quest for the Boston Herald Trophy. The women are pursuing the Boston Trophy, looking to break the record...