Word: thought
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Opposition had been growing long before Apollo XI left the pad at Cape Kennedy. The $25 billion price tag for the manned space program, spread out over ten years, provided a nice target for those who thought we should "solve our problems on earth before we worry about space." The public image of NASA and space exploration evolved into one of tremendous waste, of massive expenditures for little or no return...
...thought McGraw Hill was a good place to lodge DRI because we cannot fully capitalize on what we develop and they can," Eckstein said yesterday. "We can do more with our technology within McGraw-Hill than alone," Eckstein, head professor in Economics 10, "Principles of Economics," said...
Jackson said he thought his attackers were of high school or early college age. He added that he passed the youths twice before they attacked him, and both times they looked like they were about to begin jogging...
Distrust of the judiciary is nothing new in American history. Thomas Jefferson in 1820 thought that the notion of judges as "the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions" was "very dangerous" and threatened the "despotism of an oligarchy." At times, the press helped fan suspicion of judges; more recently it has functioned as an ally of the bench, as when the courts virtually administered school desegregation, and during Watergate...
...recent court rulings unmitigated disasters. The court in effect allows the press to print anything it can get its hands on. When the Supreme Court held that a newsman's state of mind and his preparations for a story were legitimate subjects of inquiry, this evoked visions of thought police; and yet it was only a consequence of an earlier pro-press ruling that a public figure, in order to be able to sue for libel, must prove "actual" malice and gross neglect on the part of the journalist. Most newsmen do not demand confidentiality of sources automatically...