Word: space
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...University mailed eviction notices to tenants of the apartment building last month, informing them they would have to leave by June 1 to make room for expanded GSD office space...
...million in 1977 by a consortium led by Henry Ford II. A cluster of five glass towers next to the Detroit River, "Ren Cen" consists of a 73-story hotel, the world's tallest, and four 39-story office buildings. More than 90% of the office space has been rented, and the complex's shopping arcade, which includes elegant boutiques such as Courreges, Ungaro and Cartier, has brought a fresh touch of class to Detroit...
...research and development spending accounted for 3% of the gross national product; last year the share was down to 2.2%. Some reasons: the Government has cut its support of R. and D. programs sharply with the end of the Viet Nam War and the de-emphasis of the space program; private universities have been in a financial squeeze; industry in an inflationary era has judged the payoff from R. and D. spending to be too long term and uncertain. The toll on productivity is hard to calculate, since it would have to be measured in inventions not made and labor...
...such confirmation occurred? Robert Jastrow, director of NASA'S Goddard Institute for Space Studies, has published a small and curious book called God and the Astronomers, in which he suggests that the Bible was right after all, and that people of his own kind, scientists and agnostics, by his description, now find themselves confounded. Jastrow blows phantom kisses like neutrinos across the chasm between science and religion, seeming almost wistful to make a connection. Biblical fundamentalists may be happier with Jastrow's books than are his fellow scientists. He writes operatically: "For the scientist who has lived...
...fireball destroyed all the evidence; the temperature of the universe in the first seconds of its existence was many trillion degrees. The blast obliterated all that went before. The universe was shrouded in a dense fog of radiation, which only cleared after 1 million years, leaving the transparent spangled space we see in the night sky now. The first million years are as concealed from us as God's face. There are many forms of knowing: science, experience, intuition, faith. Science proceeds on the theory that there is method in all mysteries, and that it is discoverable. It obeys...