Word: funded
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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When delegates to the International Monetary Fund and World Bank conference arrived in Washington, D.C., for an April gathering, they were met with the same taunts that had greeted conventioneers at the World Trade Organization talks in Seattle the previous December. Some called them protesters (there were between 10,000 and 35,000 of them in D.C., depending on whose estimate was believed); others called them anarchists. Under either name, their gripe was globalization: the enrichment of multinational corporations at the expense of the environment and the poor. An affiliation of activist organizations coalescing as the Mobilization for Global Justice...
Since it was launched last fall, the first genomics venture-capital fund for DNA Alley has invested in six companies, one of which, Informax, went public in October...
...luck would have it, Newby launched the market's first genomics fund (symbol: GENEX) in March, only a few weeks before the NASDAQ--led by high-flying Celera--got hammered...
...EMERGING TECH PARTNERS KEY OFFICERS: Wei-Wu He, William F. Snider, Emanuel J. Friedman FOUNDED: September 2000 FUND SIZE: $40 million WHAT IT DOES: Venture-capital fund that invests in local genomics firms...
...false.) But there will be two brief new, pseudonymous Rowling books coming this winter, based on titles in the Hogwarts library: Quidditch Through the Ages, by Kennilworthy Whisp, and Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, by Newt Scamander. Rowling will give the net proceeds to the Harry Potter Fund at Comic Relief U.K., a charity helping children in the developing world...