Word: patent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although the first shale patent was granted in England in 1694 and called for distilling "oyle from a kind of stone," oil from the dark, veined rock so far has not been developed primarily because conventional petroleum has always been cheaper. Now, at last, economic necessity and innovative technology may lead to tapping the vast potential of shale...
...three years President Carter has shifted the balance of federal R. and D. spending, which this year will total $30 billion, toward basic research. Carter this month will also present the results of a 20-month Commerce Department study on innovation. Presidential recommendations are expected to include modifications of patent and antitrust laws to protect inventors and encourage joint developments, tax breaks for small innovative businesses, and the creation of cooperative technology centers to get technical information flowing among business, Government and academe...
...said their marriage had been "no great love." The Hollywood picture of Edison as a dedicated battler for the good of humanity could hardly be more wrong. Much as his inventions did benefit humanity, Edison's object was to make money, as much as he could. His first patent was on a device for automatically and speedily recording votes in Congress and state legislatures; but because such a machine was seen as a threat to the filibuster, the legislators did not want it. Edison later took delight in recalling what he had resolved then and there: "Anything that...
...romantic roles, is his height, which offsets his distinctly un-dashing waistline. "I never look at how wide they are, but how tall," says Soprano Beverly Sills. "It is a relief to be able to put your head on a tenor's shoulder." What carries Pavarotti through is his patent sincerity and gut-level identification with his characters. "I can see myself as Rodolfo in Bohème," he says. "Rodolfo is a figure of genuine emotion. This is the real thing, so real that when Mimi enters I feel I want to take care of this woman...
...been in the Colorado Rockies last week. The Aspen Music Festival put on an exotic and deliberately irrational entertainment in which clowns, jugglers and acrobats capered across the stage. Flames shot up from nowhere. Flowers sprouted suddenly in a spittoon. A chorus stalked the aisles chanting a pitch for patent medicine. The hero was played by no less than three performers-a singer, a dancer and a magician. Before a note was even heard, the magician was hanging by his feet high over the stage, wriggling free of a straitjacket...