Word: research
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...keep the library open very much. The Central Building is now closed altogether on Thursdays, and the research libraries operate only 49 hours a week, sharply down from the 1970 figure of 78 hours. The problem is that the library, despite its name, is "public" in only one aspect: its availability to the multitudes. Only $2.5 million of its annual budget is contributed by the taxpayers of New York City. The other $17.5 million comes from private bequests, state and federal grants and donations from the public. It is woefully inadequate. Priceless books are disintegrating in the humidity because there...
...Harvard, where about 40 per cent of medical research produces such wastes, officials are scared. "If this continues," our whole research program will be thrown into confusion," Jacob A. Shapiro, radiation officer in the University's environmental health and safety office, said yesterday...
Officials estimate that research could continue at normal rates for about a week--and if the problems isn't solved by then, then some projects may have to be temporarily stopped...
Wiesner, the current president, said he plans to remain at MIT, devoting himself to teaching and research...
...than $2 billion since its conception. If we continue pouring money down the nuclear drain, we will not have the resources or the will to invest in other energy sources. The final cost of Seabrook alone is more than twice the federal government's total annual investment in solar research and development...