Word: scientistic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Government. Reason: the herbicide had not been fully tested in Peru. The company was undoubtedly reacting to protests by environmentalists, who claim that use of the herbicide on the Andes' delicate ecosystem could turn it into a desert. Just after Lilly's announcement, Walter Gentner, a recently retired research scientist at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, complained that he had been pressured by the State Department to condone use of Spike in Peru before its impact had been assessed...
...resources. In the mid-1970s he was best known as a spokesman for Soviet dissidents, especially Jews seeking to emigrate to Israel. But Anatoli Shcharansky (he later adopted his great-grandfather's Hebrew first name and simplified the English spelling of his surname) was also a mathematician, a computer scientist and a chess whiz who had devised a computer program for playing the end game. When he was arrested in 1977, he sought to use the same logic to defeat his KGB opponents, who were preparing to try him as an anti-Soviet agitator...
...discussions on the dangers of drinking. A voluntary alcohol- awareness organization called Bacchus, begun at the University of Florida in 1976, has spread to some 280 campuses across the nation. "There has generally been much greater attention on what damage alcohol can do," says Robert % Saltz, senior research scientist at the Prevention Research Center in Berkeley. But he adds, "There is still very little consensus on what to do about...
...workplaces are aswirl with noxious pollutants. An estimated one-fifth to one-third of U.S. buildings are considered "sick": they contain areas in which more than 20% of employees suffer acute discomfort that is often eased when they leave the premises. "SBS sneaks up on you," says Research Scientist Michael McCawley of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Predicts McCawley: "Office air quality will be one of the big problems of the 1990s...
...Soviets denied Yuri permission on security grounds: he once held a job in a building where classified work was done. There may be another reason: Yuri's brother is a department head at Moscow's Institute of Cosmic Research and a top Soviet space scientist. The two brothers have not seen each other since Yuri applied to emigrate...