Word: research
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...impossible to accept that a university would reject him on the basis of a lack of ability." Rainwater said. "Cloward has realized one of the ideals of the intellectual by being active in the real world while pursuing active research and teaching," he added...
...while seving as Mayor, I dared look into the Harvard bio-lab to see what the scientists were doing in DNA research. I gave them a plain case of diarrhea. I think that everybody at Harvard agreed to fry Al Vellucci in oil or burn him at the stake. My present campaign to control nuclear waste materials is causing the Harvard Corporation to "get sick in the stomach...
...Pocket Harry, however, turned out to be anything but. During the summer, he disappeared into the library of the Mayo Clinic, where he had once been general counsel, to research the medical aspects of abortion. After he emerged, he wrote a broad opinion declaring that abortion, at least in the first trimester, was a matter for a woman and her doctor, not the state, to decide. That was hardly the reasoning Burger had hoped for. The Chief eventually added a cryptic concurring opinion arguing that the court's decision did not sanction ''abortion on demand...
Henry Wechsler, research director of Boston's Medical Foundation, reported last month on a study of 7,000 students at 34 New England four-year colleges. Some sample results...
...presently having difficulty trying "to carve out a specific legislative agenda," Sharp says. At the meeting, officials discussed a number of specific issues, including the composition of government committees which pass out federal research dollars and several specific statutes. More importantly, however, the participants raised questions of inclusion in the decision-making process. Sharp says, for example, that had it not been for "an 11th hour move," single-sex colleges might have been eliminated from Title IX, which regulates federal dollars for athletics. "When we look for ways to increase equal opportunity across the board," says the ACE's Shavlik...