Word: staging
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Chairman of the History Department, Ernest R. May, says the History Department was geared to handle 50 graduate students until recently. Next year, 18 students will enter the History graduate program. "Right now we're in the talking stage about how to deal with the changes," May says, "but there is an overall department feeling that these are questions of the graduate school, not the department." The History Department sent to Rosovsky a letter summarizing some of their ideas about maintaining the viability of graduate school education, including a proposal which would widen job training to include preparation...
...next 110 years and more, proposals to establish such a department have burst upon Congress sporadically. From 1908 to 1951, more than 50 pieces of legislation seeking to establish an education department floated through the Russell, Longworth and Rayburn Congressional office buildings; however, none survived beyond the committee stage. Legislation introduced in the 95th Congress met a similar fate. Meanwhile, education has become an orphan child in the constantly expanding bureaucracy-on-the-Potomac, drifting from the Interior Department to the Federal Security Agency and finally coming to rest in 1953 in the Department of Health, Education and Welfare...
...replenish the threatened supply, scientists have long dreamed of raising lobsters. But lobster culture has so far never passed the experimental stage. The obstacles are formidable. In the wild, it takes lobsters five to eight years to reach maturity. Even when the females begin laying eggs, only about one in every batch of 10,000 survives; the larvae fall prey to a host of natural predators. To complicate the job of would-be lobster farmers, the creatures must be kept apart: in captivity they show as much appetite for each other as humans do for them. Says Marine Biologist Douglas...
Both tests are clearly still in the preliminary stage of development and may not be generally available for several years. For doctors and patients, that will be none too soon...
Since the early '70s, Americans have been flirting reluctantly with a complicated and grudging awareness about themselves and their orgies of fossil burning. But they are still in the quibbling stage, in what psychologists call a period of "defensive avoidance." The gas lines that started in California and have begun to spread across the country like a rumor are still open to confusing interpretations: Are they a temporary inconvenience or ominous intimations of the future? The last gas crisis, in 1973-74, subsided soon enough. Perhaps this one will as well? According to the Gallup poll, more than three...