Word: vocalism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...soften under Clark. Watt's public remarks got in the way of gaining broad support for his policies. As one department official puts it: "He's a great fella, but why did he have to shoot his mouth off like that?" Though Clark may be far less vocal, Interior aides expect him to be an aggressive boss, despite his inexperience with environmental issues. On the other hand, no radical shifts in policy are expected. Says one department veteran: "Reagan and Watt didn't have any great philosophical differences, and Clark and Reagan are nearly identical...
...famous pea patch. In an era when most scientific work is done by large research teams, McClintock did not even have a laboratory assistant. ("Excuse me for being hoarse," she once told a scientist who stopped by her lab at 5 p.m., "but I have not yet used my vocal cords today.") Also, like Mendel, McClintock received little attention for her efforts throughout most of her career. Her principal discovery was both complex and heretical: genes, she claimed, are not fixed on the chromosome like so many pearls on a string; they can move around in an unpredictable fashion...
...South Boston native walked near the middle of the parade with his two daughters, as his supporters tried to drown out a vocal Kearney contingent...
...MORE THAN 15 years of major public service, Melvin H. King has been a steady force for change in Boston, a vocal and forceful advocate for the city's dispossessed, the city's tenants, and the city's workers. Today he is facing seven other candidates in a preliminary election that will determine which two compete for the city that Kevin H. White has ruled for 16 years...
...recent years, there has been an explosion of--and vocal opposition to--research in genetics, including "gene-splicing," in which new forms of life may be created by altering genetic material...