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While income from such arrangements constitutes less than 5 percent of the University's total research budget, officials note a continuing trend towards such arrangements, as well as several new Harvard initiatives to attract funds from the private sector...
...past several years, a severe decline in federal funding for research has prompted universities to seek alternative sources of money primarily in the private sector. This new thrust to forge relationships between schools and industry, however, carries with it a potential threat to academic freedom. What educators most fear is that researchers will be diverted from the fundamental quest for knowledge to work only on projects resulting in profitable and marketable products...
...company. Of all members of the university community, the student especially ought to be working for himself or herself, and ought to be guided in research and trained in skills and techniques that are designed to produce a first-rate scholar, not profit for a company in the private sector...
Instead, he carried the war to the Lebanese capital. Israeli forces moved into the Christian sector of Beirut. They bombed Muslim-dominated West Beirut for most of the summer, contending that they were merely trying to flush P.L.O. guerrillas out of densely populated civilian areas. In what Begin called a "great, huge blow" to the P.L.O., the Israelis succeeded in driving more than 11,000 Palestinian fighters out of Lebanon, but at a terrible price: 462 Israeli soldiers had been killed, 2,218 had been wounded, and Israel remained caught in a military adventure that was tarnishing the nation...
...decade has made economists a lot more skeptical about using the federal budget to create new jobs." Added Schultze: "We ought to put people back to work, as much as possible, in the jobs they were doing before the recession began. In other words, we should stimulate the private sector...