Word: networking
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Murphy said he was concerned by the "inertia indealing with the AIDS epidemic," which he haswitnessed at Harvard and other institutions. Headded that Harvard's impact on AIDS research isparticularly important because the University"controls a network of centers that have astranglehold on all the medical research in thearea...
...Whatever network exists, exists between guys you become friends with in the club," a member says. "Graduates come back to have a good time, [not to give jobs]. They want to extend their college life a little bit more...
...stage in regional arms races is approaching. One reason Western governments are determined to deal with the threat from Iraq is that Saddam Hussein is only a few years away from developing nuclear weapons and accurate medium-range missiles to deliver them. The British TV network Channel 4 reported last week that Baghdad may have discovered uranium in northeastern Iraq and may already be operating an enrichment plant there. If the report is true, Saddam is poised to develop a nuclear weapon sooner than most experts have predicted...
...When he fled from the U.S.S.R. in 1985, Oleg Gordievsky was the Kremlin's top spy in Britain -- and had also been cooperating with British intelligence for a decade. Here he portrays the network of Americans who cast their lot with Moscow and tells how, in 1983, the world edged perilously close to apocalypse...
...government's action came a few days after former Interior Minister General Miroslaw Milewski, who was the Politburo member responsible for the state-security police in 1984, was apprehended on charges of corruption. According to authorities, Milewski masterminded a network of Polish agents in Western countries who stole, brought to Poland and then divvied up valuables and jewelry, plus more than 2,000 troy ounces of gold valued...