Word: scientistic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...beyond our means to do so." He may have a point. Opponents voice philosophical and practical objections. Adoption of the amendment, they say, would amount to writing into the Constitution a hotly disputed economic theory, one that posits budget deficits as the root of all fiscal evil. Asserts Political Scientist Norman Ornstein of Catholic University: "The Constitution is not supposed to make economic policy." Some 80 economists, led by Nobel Laureate Paul Samuelson, have signed an open letter to members of Congress contending that the amendment would rob the Government of needed flexibility in adjusting spending and tax plans. There...
That chilling prospect is one of the possibilities foreseen in Global Insecurity: A Strategy for Energy & Economic Renewal (Houghton Mifflin; 427 pages; $15.95), a sometimes frightening, but still generally hopeful, survey of the energy outlook published last week. The book, which is edited by Political Scientist Daniel Yergin of Harvard University and Martin Hillenbrand, director of the Atlantic Institute for International Affairs in Paris, was prepared during the past four years by a group of mostly academic contributors from the U.S., Western Europe and Japan. They included: Teruyasu Murakami, a senior consultant at the Nomura Research Institute in Japan...
...announcing the decision, President Bok praised Hubel as "an outstanding scientist whose work is brilliant "His research" has resulted in disease prevention and new treatments for children," Bok added...
...argue that women are already protected by the 14th Amendment, which offers equal protection to "all persons." They quickly co-opted the fight and mired it down in dire warnings of homosexual marriages and unisex toilets. ERA supporters dismissed the scare talk as irrelevant. But, says Emory University Political Scientist Eleanor Main, "we should have presented evidence to prove, for example, that the privacy act would preclude unisex toilets." When the battle moved to more substantial issues, it was again on opponents' terms. Foes claimed that the ERA would cede states' rights to the Federal Government, cause...
Lecturer on Astronomy Giovanni Fazio, the scientist who designed the one jointly run CFA project definitely scheduled for a shuttle flight, also says that his experiment had been hindered because of the financial and technical emphasis on developing the shuttle...