Word: decayed
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...more anguish in the ranks of scientists than we've had in 20 years. In academic institutions, young people are apprehensive about throwing in their lot with the field. Established investigators have become demoralized as a smaller and smaller fraction of their grant requests are funded. Institutional leaders see decay in the research facilities in which this research is carried out. And the entire enterprise suffers from the absence of any long-term strategic planning...
...scientific community is responsible in a major way for the paradoxes and dilemmas in which we find ourselves. The paradox is that this decay is occurring at a time when there are more opportunities than ever to ferret out the secrets of human biology and apply those secrets to the reduction of human suffering. The dilemma is that we must obtain more funding for the support of this effort in order to capitalize on those opportunities and improve the morale of the scientific community, while at the same time acknowledging that we have been generously supported for the past...
...more or less on the side of the angels," he says. "We all took a deep breath when the Berlin Wall fell. But then we turned to other things." Among them is whether the Vile Body has any future in a city teetering on the brink of terminal decay. It's not a prospect that cheers the salon regulars. New York may be a city under enemy (read: tired old liberal) aegis. But it is also the center of a vernacular culture that makes the U.S., in Johnston's sardonic phrase, "the most amusing place to live in the history...
Look around America. Begin with New York City. Observe the filth and decay, the turbulence and misery evoking a Third World capital, the homeless sleeping in the streets, the haze of drugs, the racial hate, the crime, the fear. Look at other large American cities, most of which have some of New York in them. And then recall the phrase the American Century...
Look around America. Observe, even in New York City, alongside the decay and decline, the irrepressible drive, the jackhammer energy, the ambition as high as the builders' cranes, the opportunities as exciting as the turbulent street scenes...