Word: scientistic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There are dissenters from the view that the Soviet drive for superiority is genuine?and ominous. "On any given day, every day we are tremendously more able to strike than they," argues Yale Political Scientist John Steinbruner. "It's true that the Soviets have increased their strategic forces. But they did it after we had already increased ours, and now they are trying to catch up. We are still substantially ahead...
...chose MacMahon because "he is a first rate scientist and the best epidemiologist the OTA could find," a spokesman for the OTA said yesterday...
Still, Audrey Rose seems sophisticated compared with Demon Seed. The trouble here starts with a computer scientist (Fritz Weaver) who is just too good at his job. Down at work he has created a superbrain named Proteus. At home, he has wired up a system that takes care of most of the household chores. This leaves Julie Christie, as his wife, bored and offended to the point of asking for a divorce, especially now that their child has died of leukemia. Weaver departs, but Proteus, unknown to him, has developed a capacity to think without the aid of programmers. Inevitably...
...ILRAD team's next objective is to understand the mechanism that orders these changes in the parasite's coating. That knowledge could perhaps be used to fashion an effective vaccine or more potent drugs against sleeping sickness. If Hirumi or any other scientist were to realize that long-sought goal, it could open up millions of acres of fertile, yet largely idle land in Central Africa to people and their livestock...
High Color. Throughout much of its length, The Great Republic reflects the complaint of an early U.S. scientist, who observed in 1800 that "the universal roar is, Commerce! Commerce! at all events, Commerce!" Ideology may have impelled many Americans, but for most, it seems, it was the purse that had its reasons. Though John Cabot had scouted the shores of North America as early as 1497, the English hardly deigned to look at their discovery until after 1551 when the wool market in Antwerp fell apart. The first plantations were get-rich-quick schemes, the colonists left to fend...