Word: scientistic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...adds, "It has become increasingly difficult to keep the Library up to par. If the Library doesn't receive support to alleviate some of its major problems, it will be extremely difficult to recruit University faculty in the future. Just as a scientist needs a modern laboratory, so must a scholar have a library of quality in which to carry out his work...
...money was available for this work," says Buster. "The people who make these decisions are politicians, and they have to make those decisions to remain in office. After all, infertility never killed anyone." So Buster made an alliance with Randolph Seed, a surgeon, and his brother Richard, a scientist who had experimented in cattle breeding. The Seed brothers' Chicago firm, Fertility and Genetics Research Inc., invested $500,000 in Buster's UCLA project, and they have applied for a patent on the process. Despite criticism of this arrangement by a number of doctors, Richard Seed declares, "This...
...Reagan's to lose. The most recent Darden poll showed Reagan with an enormous 26% regional lead. White Southerners tend to share his extreme hawkishness and his distaste for civil rights schemes like affirmative action. "I think Reagan can just sleep late," says John Havick, a Georgia Tech political scientist. "He's got these people...
...Australia, seem a bit beside the point. Did, as Freeman argues, Mead misread her celebrated Samoans? Were they as marvelously gentle as she thought them to be? Mead's conclusion, or wish, may have been less a matter of scholarship or research than of character. More evangelist than scientist, she appeared to believe that the ultimate purpose of anthropology is to increase a sense of life's possibilities...
...Only the first sci-fi western action adventure rock-'n'-roll melodrama farce. Only Star Wars, The Magnificent Seven, The War of the Worlds, The Right Stuff, Strange Invaders, Eddie and the Cruisers and Plan 9 from Outer Space mixed and mismatched as if by a mad scientist in his Late Show lab. And its Japanese-American hero? He is only the avatar of Han Solo, A. J. Foyt, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Christiaan Barnard, Bruce Lee and Bruce Springsteen. A state-of-the-art spaceship flying at the speed of light without narrative coordinates, Buckaroo Banzai...