Word: scientists
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...spacey Alex, who flirts with the various characters encountered in "Terra Incognita" and has a deep penchant for the "slanguage" of 1955. Susan Gray maintains a prim conservatism throughout the play as Fanny, a young old-maid from the Midwest. Amanda Frye wields words well as Mary, a "passionate scientist" with a particularly obscure vocabulary and an inclination to corny eloquence...
...were to characterize Dr. Murray, I wouldsay he is a man of great vision, that he is adedicated scientist, he is a brilliant teacher, henever gives up and he is a very modest, humble andunselfish man," says Hendren...
...that the U.S. cannot and should not undertake them alone. In the emerging, decentralized world, no single power will play the kind of predominant part that was possible in the 19th and 20th centuries. It will be an era of diffused power. In his book Bound to Lead, political scientist Joseph Nye Jr. speaks of "soft" or "co-optive" power, that is, indirect means of influence: winning others over through one's ideas or acting in concert with allies and through international organizations...
...scientists wear two pairs of rubber gloves while conducting experiments, but the hood provides an extra measure of safety by placing a downward flowing air current between the researcher and the samples. Thus, if any particle came floating toward the scientist, the current of air would push it down to a filter at the hood's bottom, preventing it from ever reaching the scientist...
Defenders of the committee also say that itcuts across several of the major academicdisciplines: Hope and Williams are lawyers;Slichter is a scientist; Gray is a historian;White-head is familiar with public policy; andRosovsky is an economist and expert on Japan...