Word: destruction
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Trilling, 71, addresses contemporary events and issues with the energy and wide-ranging curiosity usually attributed to the young. She speaks in a distinctive voice, lucid, commonsensical and compassionate. She is an ideal witness to "the self-destruct history" of the '60s and '70s-that "procession of events each of which had its full dramatic or even melodramatic moment, only to be virtually wiped from memory by a next event, a next dramatic moment...
...safeguards to multiply in the outside world. Faced with this problem at the Asilomar conference. Geneticist Roy Curtiss III proposed an ingenious solution: Why not convert the standard genetic research organism, a strain of the E. coli bacterium, into a seriously weakened mutant variety that would quickly self-destruct if it escaped the laboratory? Curtiss volunteered to engineer the new bug, and his colleagues agreed to hold off on many of their recombinant DNA experiments until they could be supplied with...
...participate in the latest five-year international tin-pricing agreement. The U.S. also is leaning toward negotiating accords on several other raw materials. Despite these hopeful signs, however, the current rise in commodity prices is an unnerving reminder that the industrial world's recovery could conceivably self-destruct by going too fast...
...behavioristic potential. Pre-meds could all be stuck in one dorm, and the results would indicate much about the nature of the human and Harvard beasts. Would masses of pre-meds realize from this proximity to other pre-meds how crazy their grind is? Would they eventually self-destruct under heightened competition or would they just work harder...
...Well, as I look back, certainly there was this self-destruct attitude toward Mr. Johnson and it carried on into Mr. Nixon. I am not saying it is aimed at me, but I think there is a tendency as we look over the recent history that Presidents become very visible and very live targets. Now that is fine and it doesn't hurt individuals, but it certainly could hurt the presidency...