Word: researcher
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Additional space in the four-story, U-shaped building will relieve present overcrowding. Members of the astronomy department with offices and laboratories not now at the Observatory will be able to relocate there. "The new building will also make it possible to appoint about three additional professors with their research groups," Goldberg said. At present some Faculty positions are unfilled partly because there is too little room at the Observatory to accommodate more professors...
...City is limited to taxes which are on the whole regressive: the poor pay proportionately more. According to unpublished research done at the National Bureau of Economic Research for fiscal year 1968-69, a family in New York City with a before-tax income under $2,000 paid 11.5 per cent in total City taxes. As family income rose, this steadily decreased to 5.7 per cent for a family with income between $10,000 and $15,000 Families making over $15,000 paid an average of 74 per cent, a slight increase but still less than for families with below...
President Pusey said this week, "I think Fulbright's motive was to get the Defense Department out of the business of pure research and to put such research under the National Science Foundation. Some of us are a little skeptical of whether funds will actually be transferred to NSF. In theory, I think they [the Defense Department] don't feel they're financing anything that doesn't have some military application...
Pusey and Dean Ford added, however, that scientists engaged in "pure research" financed by the Defense Department do not necessarily share that department's appraisal of their work. They noted that, in past years, the Defense Department had said that a project had military applications if even if it merely "increased the nation's capability...
Washington sources have indicated that the Defense Department will probably try to circumvent the bill by adopting some such broad definition of military applications. If it does, however, Congress may try to put stricter limitations on Defense-financed research, the source said...