Word: researchable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...which Kennedy settled portions of his wealth on his 28 grandchildren. The three trust funds and the Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. Foundation are the chief instruments of capital conservation. At the end of 1968, the foundation had assets of $22.1 million, and it disbursed $1.6 million, almost entirely for research in mental retardation...
...world's military spending-$173.4 billion for 1968-now exceeds the total amount of all goods and services it produced in 1900. So reports the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. The rate is accelerating. During the 1949-68 period, world military spending rose an average 5.9% a year, but for the past three years it has shot up by 8.9%. The U.S. outlay has jumped from an average annual rise of 7.7% to 12%. Last year the U.S. spent $79.6 billion for military purposes, followed by the Soviet Union with $39.8 billion. Together the two countries account for some...
...same part of the brain is involved in both conditions. Thanks to his astute observation and his persistence in trying a "discarded treatment, 2,000 or more parkinsonism patients in the U.S. are now enjoying the first effective drug treatment for the disorder. There is hope that after the research phase is finished, the benefits can be extended to hundreds of thousands more. (The number of victims of parkinsonism in the U.S. alone is estimated at 300,000 to 1,500,000.) The drug is usually called L-dopa, or simply dopa, short for Levo-dihydroxyphenylalanine...
...committee members said the Project is primarily intended to develop methods of adapting computers to social science research. However, in addition to strictly "methodological" research, some "substantive" research will be undertaken, they admitted...
Opponents of the Cambridge Project have objected to this type of research because the project is funded by the Pentagon. The statement said that the project is seeking funds for substantive research from sources other than the Defense Department. The National Science Foundation is the alternative source most often named...