Word: yet
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Washington. But Presidents starting with Hoover have preferred that their papers rest in their own libraries. Some scholars have argued that it is more convenient to centralize presidential collections, rather than scatter them across the nation in what Columbia Historian Henry Graff terms "the pyramids of our times." Yet, as the National Archives points out, a quadrennial flood of documents by the millions would probably overwhelm any single institution. Also, as one Government archivist concedes, "not all scholars live in Washington...
That he might do so is precisely the hope of a research report on Women in Church and Society, published last year by the Catholic Theological Society of America. But the equality of men and women, stressed in America, is not yet a subject of such pressing interest to Catholics in those parts of the world (Latin America, Africa, Eastern Europe, Asia) where the majority of Roman Catholics live...
...Washington Mall sent shock waves through America's politically powerful Pro-Choice movement, which espouses total freedom to abort. But even among relatively liberal Catholics there is negligible backing for abortion on demand. In fact, no front-rank Protestant, Eastern Orthodox, Jewish or Muslim theologian has yet developed a serious argument for totally open abortion, though most countenance abortion in extreme cases, such as when the mother's life is threatened...
...glass fibers rather than in electric currents moving through bulky cables. IBM's research budget this year will be $1.25 billion, and the company has become the first to master the mass production of a silicon memory chip small enough to pass through the eye of a needle yet able to store 64,000 bits of information. Bell & Howell's Frey maintains it is a myth that only small firms can be innovative, adding that only large corporations have the capital and the distribution network to take new products from lab to market...
...yet precisely defined the ingredients necessary for a society to generate innovation. Historian Barbara Tuchman notes that the 12th and 13th centuries enjoyed "one of civilization's great bursts of development," with the introduction of the compass, the spinning wheel and the windmill. Mid-19th century Europe and the U.S. enjoyed similar explosions. But why? Perhaps necessity is indeed the mother of invention, and the demands of the current energy and environmental crises may yet revive the spirit of the Yankee tinkerer...