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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...research team led by Elias J. Corey, Emery Professor of Organic Chemistry, succeded in its 17-year struggle to synthesize the plant hormone gibberellic acid, the journal of the American Chemical society reported in its December 6 issue...
...result, the Chinese pool of scientists and engineers who kept up to date in their various fields grew perilously small. Teng's modernization drive now aims at rehabilitating scientists who were shunted to other work, at re-establishing research institutes and academies. According to one report, in Szechwan province alone 12,000 scientists and technicians have so far been returned to their old jobs from unrelated professions...
Despite the political depredations of Maoist anti-intellectualism, the Chinese are probably more confident of progress in this area than in any other of the Four Modernizations. The initial Chinese objective is the establishment within five years of a research network for the basic sciences, then a system of modern laboratories that will press on with research into what the Chinese (who have a sort of political fetish for numbers) call the Five Golden Blossoms: atomic science, semiconductors, computer technology, lasers and automation. In March, Vice Premier Fang Yi reported an eight-year timetable for China to begin the launching...
...doesn't matter where women start out," says Charlotte Stewart, 49, coordinator of the Dallas-area centers. "After a divorce, they all end up in the same place. Down." Studies and statistics bear her out. The University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research found that after divorce "the economic status of former husbands improves, while that of former wives deteriorates." Only 2% of all divorced women with children receive more than $5,000 a year in support. Only 14% of divorce settlements include any alimony, and only 44% award child support-but less than half of either...
Complicating the Administration's problems are two other factors. One is that, in the words of Audrey Freedman, senior research associate of the nonprofit Conference Board, "the coming year opens a three-year bargaining cycle dominated by fear-on the part of all employees, union and nonunion alike-that inflation will overwhelm wage increases." Thus union members think that they ought to get the biggest raises possible to protect themselves against an inexorable rise in prices. The Administration has sought to counter that fear by ballyhooing a proposal to Congress to grant income-tax rebates to workers whose wages...