Word: scientistic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...honest politician, which is hard to find these days." Joseph Turner, a Democratic sewing-machine repairman from Roselle, N.J., believes McGovern is more likely to look out for the working classes and enforce the law of the land on matters like school integration. Charles Sage, a Clifton, N.J., scientist and a Democrat, says McGovern "has the potential of being a really great President because he'd make a determined effort to restore respect for our Government and supply moral leadership...
...before the disclosure law took effect on April 7. Nearly every big giver of both parties routinely shards his gifts into $3,000-and-under bits and scatters them among dozens of committees. Against all odds, the nonprofit Citizens' Research Foundation, headed by Herbert E. Alexander, a political scientist, attempts an accounting each election year, based on voluntary disclosures made by candidates and statements filed. Such a system cannot ferret out those determined to conceal their gifts, but it does at least give an indication of what the honest men are up to. Herewith a necessarily incomplete gallery...
...comes from the accounting firm of Ernst & Ernst, which recently audited the D.C. police records and found that more than 1,000 thefts of over $50 had been purposely downgraded to below $50. That made them petty larceny and dropped them from the roster of major crimes. Princeton Political Scientist David Seidman, who helped conduct another study of Washington, adds, "The police tend not even to record crime they believe they have little or no chance of solving." Even more misleading, according to experts, is the fact that many, perhaps even most crimes are never reported to the police...
London has worked as a research scientist in hematology and a practicing physician, as well as teaching at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York, where he is a visiting professor. He is also currently a physician at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston...
Polish up your basic skills in higher mathematics and statistical techniques, for these are sufficient to make you a highly prestigious social scientist. Don't worry if you cannot write coherently, because if more than ten people read anything you have written, it cannot possibly be scientific and should not have been written anyway...