Word: symposiums
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...critics were strengthened last week by release of a United Nations report, prepared by an international symposium of petroleum experts, that took a much more optimistic line. Oil and natural-gas supplies, declared the U.N. report, "would most probably be available, albeit at a substantially higher cost, not only for the next two or three decades but very likely during the period of transition to the use of renewable energy sources even if this transition should last a hundred years or more." The U.N. experts believe that today's high oil prices will encourage exploration in remote, previously uneconomic...
Sponsored by the Admissions Office and Harvard's minority organizations, the weekend includes an academic symposium, a financial aid forum, a picnic and several parties...
Soviet authorities barred George Wald, Higgins Professor of Biology, from attending a scientific symposium on Moscow on Thursday...
...symposium was organized by dissident Jewish scientists seeking to emigrate from the Soviet Union...
...scientists assessed the implications of the current drought at their Denver symposium, many urged that a new look be taken at long-range water problems. Stephen H. Schneider, head of the climate project for the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo., argued that the nation should always be prepared for droughts, rather than surprised by them, because they are a regular feature of the U.S. climate. Although the timing of droughts cannot be predicted, they have been occurring in the plains states at roughly 20-to 22-year intervals, and are possibly related in an unknown fashion...