Word: progressiveness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...thought is how to make the day unbearable for Democrats. So when you hear the House majority leader fairly purring about one of them--particularly one who happens to be the new White House budget chief--it's time to wonder: Has the thawing of partisan hatred begun? Is progress in the air? Or is someone about to get rolled...
Taborsky's Kafka-like ordeal began in 1987, when as a student at the University of South Florida, he took an $8.50-an-hour lab-assistant job to help pay his tuition. He was assigned to a $20,000 project contracted by a subsidiary of Florida Progress, a local power company, to determine if bacteria can be used to extract ammonia from clinoptilolite, a clay used in filtering water. The clay, similar to Kitty Litter, absorbs ammonia from water and can be cleaned and used over and over...
...soon became apparent, however, that the bacterial approach wouldn't work, and the project was terminated. Taborsky's supervisor, Professor Robert Carnahan, assigned him to menial jobs in the lab and, because the Florida Progress grant had terminated, began paying him from other budgets...
...that temperature, Taborsky concluded, the small pockets in the clay that absorb calcium close down while the ones that accept ammonia remain open. By spring 1988, he had gathered enough data to make his case to Carnahan and a Florida Progress representative, who told him that his idea could be "worth millions...
...what might his share be? Taborsky asked. "Nothing," said Carnahan, explaining that under terms of the Florida Progress contract, the process he had developed belonged to the company. But Carnahan proposed a consolation prize. If Taborsky would voluntarily turn the rights of his discovery over to Florida Progress, the company would offer him a staff...