Word: extention
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...extent of corporate political power is a serious problem and it must be acknowledged if we are to deal with it effectively. There are, however, no easy solutions. Business does have the right to get its views across. Some first steps that have suggested are federal chartering of corporations, public financing of Congressional elections and strict lobbying disclosure laws. It seems clear that something must be done. We must not allow corporations, by virtue of their special financial status, to dominate access to the media, to the electoral process and to our politicians. We must not allow the voices...
...words of Justice Bazelon's Court of Appeals opinion in the same case, though reversed by the Supreme Court, now resonate with a special prescience: "To the extent that uncertainties necessarily underlie predictions of this importance on the frontiers of science and technology, there is a concomitant necessity to confront and explore fully the depth of such uncertainties." The Supreme Court thought otherwise and gagged the public...
What allows the theory such wide-ranging applications is its emphasis on qualitative rather than quantitative analysis. What matters is not when or not to what extent something will happen, but whether it will take place at all. Thus catastrophe theorists can claim to understand phenomena other mathematical approaches cannot explain: naturally-occuring discontinuities or "jumps." Since the time of Newton and Leibniz, founders of the calculus three centuries ago, mathematical models in science have been concerned with the regular rotation of planets, the gradual increase in pressure of a gas being heated and the continuously-changing velocity...
First, the fund is intended to assist, "South African blacks and coloureds admitted to Harvard-Radcliffe." I would be amazed, and indeed highly impressed, if any South African non-white nationals have been able to overcome the barrier of apartheid to the extent of being admitted to the College, or are likely to do so in the near future. I suspect there may be none. Can anyone disabuse me of this notion? This letter itself certainly does...
...Bernard Fields, chief of infectious diseases at Brigham, said yesterday the hospital has responded to the problem by urging pregnant women not to come into the hospital, discharging--to the extent possible--pregnant patients and running an immunization program for members of the staff...