Word: scientistic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Type Ts, says Farley, are invariably high-energy people, some of whom find excitement in mental exercise. Scientist Crick, he points out, was a successful physicist who switched in mid-career to biology, where he won honors for his work with DNA. Sometimes, Farley believes, the energy goes awry: Belushi, a creative entertainer, sought stimulation in drugs, turning from a T-plus into a T-minus. Says Farley: "I can't predict whether the Type T will become a Dillinger or a Crick, but if you can interest them early and work with them, you can push them toward...
...they might, computer scientists seemed unable to overcome these deficiencies--until Victor Zue came along. Zue is a Chinese-born M.I.T. scientist who decided to teach himself to read spectrograms (computer-enhanced versions of the electrical wave forms of speech) as if they were words. This was no easy task. While spectrograms made by one person repeating the same word look alike, those made by another differ considerably. Zue discovered, however, that no matter how unlike spectrograms appear, they all have certain features in common. For example, the s in stop will appear as a dark rectangular wedge, no matter...
...over its MIC plant at Institute, W. Va., which was closed down immediately after the Bhopal tragedy. Conducting a press tour of the facility, it showed off the results of a $5 million program to improve safety measures. Some environmentalists were not entirely reassured. Says A. Karim Ahmed, a scientist with the Natural Resources Defense Council in New York City: "It remains to be seen whether they learned the lesson of Bhopal...
...defensive policy would be wrenching, and Reagan's then National Security Adviser, William Clark, was loath to upset his "client" bureaucracies. Thus when Teller obtained an audience with Reagan on Sept. 14, ) 1982, Clark attended as devil's advocate. He posed skeptical questions that tended to undercut the scientist's presentation...
...when cities use revenue sharing to pay for local garbage collection, street maintenance, fire and police, rather than for capital improvements, health care, nutrition or housing, the program does not seem to be meeting its original purposes. Stanford Political Scientist Alvin Rabushka contends that city services in general have declined despite federal aid. "If we spent more and got worse--if spending increases didn't translate into better services--it's hard to prove that cutbacks will lead to any deterioration," he argues. That view may seem harsh to local officials struggling to keep their cities from sliding deeply into...