Word: research
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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University officials stressed that the crisis is mostly over. "The Washington dump will reopen soon," Walter Milne, an MIT spokesman, said, adding that MIT had never been in immediate danger of having to stop research efforts...
Wacker said Harvard officials had set October 19 as the cutoff date for research but had been able to find an alternate dumping site in time to prevent any research shutdown...
...your article "The Nobel Prizes" [Oct. 29], you state that "the social sciences are frequently not so intellectually taxing as scientific research." If the study of philosophy is simpler than physics, then why are we still perplexed by the same age-old queries in philosophy, while the results of scientific research have propelled man to the moon and provided us with "miracle drugs...
...read with interest your fine article on the Nobel Prizes for 1979. However, I was disappointed by one serious omission. Nowhere in your article did you mention the institutions that encouraged the research, or the granting agencies that provided the necessary financial support for the awardees. Purdue University has been my home for more than 32 years and has provided an ideal environment for the research that my students and I have carried out. Financial support for various aspects of my research has been provided by the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, the U.S. Army Research Office...
...quake does strike soon, it will cause far more damage than its 19th century predecessor. A new study by the Midwest Research Institute in Kansas City estimates that a nighttime New Madrid-sized jolt during the next ten years could kill nearly 300 people, injure 27,000 others and cause damage totaling $3.2 billion. The survey also found little concern for building earthquake-resistant structures in the region and noted that only Memphis had any quake-preparedness plans. Explains Jimmy Cravens, the mayor of New Madrid (pop. 3,029): "All of us who grew up around here have felt earthquakes...