Word: researchable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Project would use M.I.T. computers for social science research funded by the Defense Department. It has come under radical attack as an alleged aid to counter-revolutionary warfare...
...views were somewhat incompletely and at one point inaccurately reported. I asserted that DOD supports over half of current American foreign areas (not all behavioral), research. The sponsorship is not unimportant, moreover, because it tends to develop greater in-house capabilities for achieving DOD aims, perpetuates a loathsome Congressional discrimination against social-scientist-controlled funding sources, and puts many researchers. especially those interested in foreign areas, in a "conflict of interest" situation. On the other hand. I agreed with the views of Professor Deutsch, noted in the article, that reality assessments using expensive, "hard" techniques may help reduce Pentagon tension...
...Harvard have us arrested for putting up posters? We worked to publicize a march against the Vietnamese war and the negotiations, against university attacks on the people (like ROTC, expansion. and counterinsurgency research), and against the Universities' lousy treatment of campus workers...
...need therefore exists for convocations of the faculty for the free discussion of matters that are of public concern but are not intimate? related to the conduct of classes, research and other faculty business...
Although NIH usually sets the amount of grants for each project individually, HEW officials have-ordered an across-the-board five percent cut in continuing projects and a ten percent one for new projects. Inflation has increased the expense of research about ten percent over last year...