Word: field
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard fared extemely well in field events, as junior John Brzezinski and freshman William Doyle finished 1-2 in the 35-lb. shot put. Brzezinski posted a 54-ft. toss, while Doyle had a 52-ft., 6-in. throw...
...major law firms have a slower Mommy Track, but women who choose to switch to such "part-time" positions (as many as 40 hours a week instead of 70) generally do not have the option of picking up speed again; they are out of the race for partnership. Other fields are even less accommodating. "In academic science, the granting situation is so tight that even if you are very creative, if you divert your energy to a child, it will be extremely difficult to compete," says Lola Reid, a research biologist at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine...
...this issue TIME introduces a new column in the Business section, "World of Business." It is written by London-based contributor Robert Ball, a former TIME correspondent and member of FORTUNE's board of editors. The column reflects the magazine's commitment to covering the increasingly important field of international business...
...field of public policy, no one is better than Rifkin in the martial arts of social activism: lawsuits, petitions, debates, lectures and media manipulations. Each year the three attorneys on the staff of his Washington- based Foundation on Economic Trends file about six lawsuits and threaten more. Among other causes, he has battled surrogate motherhood, animal patenting and agricultural experiments involving open-air use of genetically altered bacteria. He tried to delay the launch of the Galileo spacecraft by warning that a shuttle explosion could rain plutonium on Florida. In Wisconsin he has helped start a boycott of dairy products...
...Rifkin to sue to block the experiment. The courts agreed, and, thanks to Rifkin, testing was postponed for three years while the NIH, the Department of Agriculture and the Environmental Protection Agency struggled to draw up rules under which genetically engineered products would move from the lab to the field...