Word: use
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...clear if FAS will go through with an HRE plan to build a hotel on the property, but Spence said he thought it was "strategically important to the FAS to feel that we will be able to use the site...
...last December, that plan ran into unexpected opposition when the full Faculty overwhelmingly passed a resolution calling on the University to use the property--located directly across the street from Widener and Lamont Libraries--for another library or to ease a shortage of faculty offices...
Spence said the debate over the Gulf Stationhelped FAS and the University redefine principlesof land purchase and use and said the Universitywould give more attention to FAS' space concernsin the future...
Child-welfare groups and educators in several areas are mounting public- education campaigns aimed at stopping the "report-card reflex." The programs, modeled after one begun in Houston by the Child Abuse Prevention Council, use newspaper ads, TV and radio announcements, school flyers mailed to students' homes and brochures inserted into report cards. All these materials contain the same basic message for parents: raising voices or fists is not the answer to raising grades...
...small asteroid could vaporize it, says Alan Harris, an astronomer at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. But the warhead might also simply break the rock into pieces that would hit the earth anyway. A better plan, proposed by concerned scientists in the early 1980s, would be to use explosives to deflect an asteroid rather than destroy it. Properly positioned, a bomb could nudge a threatening object enough to make it miss the planet. The catch, says Harris, is that there would not be much time to react to an approaching celestial body. "With an asteroid like this...