Word: scientistic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Taking refuge from the storms of competitive Cambridge, in a small and modest white frame house an Appian Way, an English scientist named Francis Crick is handing across a rickety formica a kitchen table to Harvard scientist James D. Watson a many-times of initials are scratched, chart like, in pencil. It is the DNA code...
...Eisenmann Medal will be awarded annually to the scientist who has done the most to help amateur ornithologists, and to contribute to biological science...
...whoops were not coming just from the political opposition. House G.O.P. Leader Robert Michel and Senator Robert Stafford, chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, called for her ouster. Other Republicans wrote to Reagan urging that Burford be dumped in favor of a politically independent scientist. By week's end White House aides were busy drawing up a list of eligible replacements, and the hints had become broadsides. Reagan's aides had reached the conclusion that Burford was a political liability...
Among the early reformers were two of Spinney's former mentors in the Pentagon bureaucracy, Air Force Colonel (Ret.) John Boyd and Research Scientist Pierre Sprey. It was the lobbying of Boyd and Sprey for simpler, more maneuverable weapons that made possible the development in the early 1970s of the F-16 fighter jet, an effective and affordable complement to the expensive...
Harvard "doesn't rank anywhere nearly as high as it ought to," says another, Yale computer scientist Alan J. Perlis. Harvard has "fumbled around" in the field for 20 years, Perils says, adding. "They do use out good people, but that's largely a consequence of the rest of the place...