Word: withing
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Some antitheft systems are decidedly low-tech. Several grocery stores, including Cub Foods in Colorado Springs, Colo., are placing life-size cardboard figures of local police officers next to such tempting items as film and cosmetics. The cutouts cost Cub $500 apiece but have reduced shoplifting in the store 30...
A. There is 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...
A. There is much truth in that House report. And there is an edge in the language that I have previously not seen from the House committee, and it is a reflection of the frustration that Congress feels with the leadership of the National Institutes of Health and with the...
A. Any serious economic assessment of health-sciences research will demonstrate that it has been remarkably cost effective. For example, the funds that were expended to develop the polio vaccine 30 years ago were quite small compared to the value derived from the virtual eradication of poliomyelitis. It has been...
Q. Significant improvements in the public health could be made with behavioral changes: smoking cessation and so on. Isn't there too little money going into what are high targets of opportunity?