Word: researchers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...interesting idea has emerged from the debate on divestiture, Mr. President, the idea that excellence in research and teaching depends on the exploitation of black South Africans, that the financial costs of divestiture might impair what you termed in your open letter of March 9 our "special mission" in "the discovery and transmission of knowledge." Now this notion will not surprise those radical critics of capitalism who have long argued the dependence of corporate profits on racism and imperialism. It is more surprising to hear this argument from more respectable sources, indeed from the very establishment itself...
...President, let me speak frankly. I could accept your argument for political neutrality more easily if our teaching and research really gave the weight to a "continuing critique" of our society that your open letter suggests...
Some Facets of the Cancer Problem--James Cairns, director, imperial Cancer Research Fund, Science Center...
...purpose of these impertinent propositions is supposed to be market research. An Ohio firm that sells animal-shaped plastic planters wondered whether sales would increase if its clerks hugged every customer...
...radiation begin causing damage to the human body? While the U.S. has long since stopped nuclear tests in the atmosphere (although the Chinese and French have not), hundreds of thousands of Americans are exposed regularly to low-level radiation-aboard atomic ships and submarines, inside nuclear power plants, in research laboratories, or indeed at any time they...