Word: researchers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Stealing a jump on the President, Senator Edward Kennedy conducted his own hasty investigation. His Subcommittee on Health and Scientific Research summoned, among others, NRC Chairman Joseph Hendrie. Irritated by Hendrie's unflappable, all-too-cool testimony, Kennedy complained: "I would think you would have a greater sense of anxiety than you apparently...
...Energy Commission, set up in 1946 shortly after the first atomic bomb fell on Japan. The AEC had the job of both promoting and safeguarding the development of atomic power. In 1974 President Gerald Ford signed a bill splitting the AEC into two agencies with separate functions: the Energy Research and Development Administration, which encourages the growth of nuclear power, and the NRC, which is concerned with safety...
...Defense Harold Brown of the awakening American attitude toward our strength. We drifted in the years after Viet Nam, embarrassed by power. The Soviets did nothing of the sort. By the early 1980s the U.S.S.R. will probably have caught up with us in almost every modern military category. Their research into new weapons of terror, though now behind ours, will perhaps exceed our own because of the sheer concentration of effort...
...bulk of the funds still go toward enlarging the junior faculty, primarily in the humanities, who will help senior faculty to teach the Core courses. The Mellon Foundation traditionally supports instruction and research in the humanities fields...
Next year the committee must produce yet another slate of Core courses. This time, they should encourage meaningful student involvement, perhaps through concentrators' committees. These departmental panels could evaluate Core courses in their field and suggest new courses. Pfeffer said these "little research groups" could assist and fill in the gaps in the Faculty subcommittee's work...