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Loeb University Professor Walter Gilbert, who works in the Molecular and Cellular Biology Department, says the "uneasy relationship" between the university and biotech companies go back to the 1970s and '80s...
...Gilbert, who founded Biogen and said he served as its chief executive officer for four or five years in the early '80s, resigned his professorship at Harvard while he ran Biogen. Gilbert was subsequently re appointed when he stepped down...
...struggle is the only way to liberate Palestine." This was his ideology, and according to the guidelines of these principles did he govern himself and the organization which he led. That the P.L.O. in general and Arafat in particular were objectively considered terrorists in the 1970s through the mid 80s is therefore, fact...
During the height of the Cold War, when the West shifted its attention and chose to ally with Beijing to counter the Soviet Union, Taiwan quietly and almost totally withdrew itself from the international scene. Throughout the 1970s and '80s, the PRC began to regain its confidence in playing a major role in global affairs, using mainly its physical power drawn from vast land and a huge population to impress the world as some tough guy whom you might hate but just can't ignore. In the meantime, Taiwan broke away from the illusion of fighting back, nearly stopped calling...
...that won't cause confusion at the Olympic Games? Giving up its United Nations membership in 1971 is still considered the greatest shame by the island's politicians, who find their own territory by all means an independent state with its economic strength and democratic reform. In the late '80s, it looked like the right time to earn it back legitimately. After all, it is just not fair to leave such a prominent and prosperous member out in the cold, begging...