Word: scientistic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...unemployed reached double digits. Black unemployment crept above 20%, and for blue-collar workers the rate jumped from 14.2% to 15.6%. Among construction workers, unemployment rose to 22.6%. Friday was even given a nickname in advance: "Double-D-Day." Said Richard Murray, a University of Houston political scientist: "This has been the most anticipated number in American politics. I've never seen so much ballyhoo...
...unemployment since 1980 and is now first in the nation at 15.9%, State G.O.P. Chairman Mel Larsen predicts, "I don't think it's going to have that big an impact here. The rest of the country is just catching up to us." But Yale University Political Scientist Edward Tufte suggests that the issue could cost Republicans as many as 40 congressional seats next month. Says he: "Local factors like personality are Important, but the economy is in a sense a local factor, especially when people are out of work...
Leder's research--performed at the Medical School in collaboration with scientist at the National Institute of Health--originally sought to discover on a genetic level how the body's immunological system produces an infinite safety of disease fighting antibodies of immunoglobulin molecules, the Globe story said...
Noting, for example, that the Soviet Union plans to build a large space station, Jastrow quotes the head Pentagon scientist, who last month suggested that the station "may be the forerunner of a weapons platform." That the USSR launched 125 satellites last year while NASA sent up only 18 leads Jastrow to suspect that some of the Soviet devices are actually "killer satellites that can lurk in orbit" for long periods of time until detonated from the ground. Jastrow most fears the Soviets may someday have enough such killer satellites to abruptly declare the space above the USSR off-limits...
Harvard professors have won the prestigious annual award for medical discoveries in the past two years. Last year, University Professor David H. Hubel and Torston N. Wiesel, Winthrop Professor of Neurobiology shared the prize with a scientist from the California Institute of Technology...