Word: scientistic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Others are also skeptical. Michael Pace, a scientist at the Institute of Ecosystem Studies in New York, who reviewed the report before it was released, found it "hard to believe" that airborne sources were so important. "The numbers are very soft," said Pace. "They are only rough estimates...
Judis provides useful insights into Buckley's conservative lineage. One early influence, Albert Jay Nock, an anarchist and enemy of mass culture, had visions of an intellectual elite he called the Remnant. Another, Yale Political Scientist Willmoore Kendall, argued that the interests of the majority should always prevail over individual rights. A loathing of the left had already been passed on to Buckley by his father Will, a Texas-born oilman who made a fortune in Mexico, only to have most of his property there seized in the years after the 1910 revolution...
...consequently failed to secure a partisan boost. Even though Barre, an economics professor, offered a more trenchant critique of Mitterrand's economic and defense policies than Chirac, all too often he did so in a style better suited to university lecture halls than to political rallies. Said Political Scientist Olivier Duhamel of the University of Paris- Nanterre: "He has spoken Gaullist words but failed to achieve a Gaullist style...
...like to divide power. That's why they vote for Republicans for President and Democrats for Congress. Because they want a balance of power. You think the average guy says, 'Gee! I'm afraid of that one, so I'm going to restrain him'? Ha! That's a political scientist talking. Know what I mean?" ((Double rimshot...
LACK of sensitivity toward science students not only occurs here, but at colleges all over the United States. A male science student at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma. Washington wrote an article for News-week on Campus that discussed the difficulty of being a scientist at a predominantly liberal arts college. The author wrote, "On the rare occasions when I do speak from my knowledge of engineering, there is a language barrier. I can't talk mathematics to the people in my core classes because most of them don't understand...