Word: developmental
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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The solitary tinkerer, an archetypical figure of American technology, has widely been replaced by corporate research and development teams armed with computers. Still, some lonely inventors do survive. TIME'S Timothy Tyler visited one of them:
Back in the Bottle. Many American scientists feel that the horrors of MIRV are so great that the U.S. should make a determined effort to stuff ths MIRV genie back in the bottle. The system was conceived primarily as a countermeasure to the Soviet ABM. By multiplying the number of...
Debts from Deficits. The Atomic Energy Commission, the Selective Service Commission and other agencies spend an estimated $1.6 billion a year for defense-related projects. At least one-half of the $3.4 billion allocated for space programs can be considered defense-connected. The Agency for International Development spends roughly $950...
Abraham Morganstern, research director of the Electrical Workers Union, believes American workers have become overly dependent on war work. He predicts that the transition to a peacetime economy, which President Nixon has talked much about lately, will be more difficult than is generally realized. For one thing, says Morgan stern...
Examining Nuances. Economist Shultz, who originally suggested the commission, hopes for a broader approach to the productivity problem. "People automatically think of featherbedding, but that's just one part of it," he says. The commission, Shultz believes, should also examine the impact of research and development, relations between scientists...