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Dates: during 1980-1989
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According to a mid-December draft the most recent of several that have emerged since last spring the rules spell out proposed policy in four major areas conduct of research, discussing criteria for accepting grants motivation for research, including conflict of interest rules for Faculty members, quality of research covering the review and evaluation of projects and the commercial applications of research defining the touchy issues involved with patenting and licensing "any invention deriving from university-based research...
...routine work mean that human thinking will shift to a higher level? Will IQs rise? Will there be more intellectuals? The computer may make a lot of learning as unnecessary as memorizing the multiplication tables. But if a dictionary stored in the computer's memory can easily correct any spelling mistakes, what is the point of learning to spell? And if the mind is freed from intellectual routine, will it race off in pursuit of important ideas or lazily spend its time on more video games...
...York. Her catastrophic past has given her mercurial moods: giddy with ecstasy at the antics of her lover Nathan (Kevin Kline) and her puppy pursuer Stingo (Peter MacNicol), then darkly ruminative as memory provides her with waking nightmares. Even as sketched by Styron in overwrought prose, Sophie wove a spell over millions of readers...
...halftime, about 40 MIT students, disguised as Yale band members, rushed onto the field, lay down, and used their bodies to spell out the name of their school...
...fact, Hammer's proposed reform is propitious for a second reason. The new configuration for next year would spell out, conveniently enough, both "the bad spirit is dead" and "beautiful fields...