Word: impressionism
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Kevin D. Katari's February 2 editorial ("Why Physics is a Repulsive Force") makes some very true and equally depressing points about the failures of the concentration programs in the physical sciences. But it misses the mark, I am afraid, in the analysis: it is, at best, naive to assume...
A. From the two discussions that I have held ((with him)), this has been my distinct impression. There are many things that he said and did which convinced me that this is a man I could do business with.
Just how embedded this budgetary sleight of hand has become was illustrated during hearings by the Senate Finance Committee last week. U.S. Comptroller General Charles A. Bowsher described how the Government moved $52 billion from the Social Security trust funds, as well as $71 billion from other Government trust funds...
Gorbachev also wants a new, streamlined Central Committee, "working on a permanent basis" with only 200 voting members, instead of the present 249 voting and 108 nonvoting members. He also spoke out against electing members simply because they held important posts, terming the practice an "expression of the party-and...
And Harvard's president, Derek C. Bok, says that "without any plan or any funds or anything tangible to suggest how [these goals] could be achieved, it is hard not to come away with the impression that this is simply political rhetoric on this subject."