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...occupy these revitalization sites. "The city is bursting at the seams," says Barbara Sullivan of the Cambridge Chamber of Commerce. "You can only hold back development for so long," she adds John Conally, executive director of the Private Industry Council, which works with CETA officials to locate private sector jobs, says. "I believe the upturn will happen shortly. If the government program [to improve the economy] doesn't do it, business will take the bull by the horns...
...second-straight day, their planes dropped leaflets on Beirut that were calculated to undermine the morale of the 600 000 inhabitants of the besieged western sector...
When, 18 years ago, I was writing 2001: A Space Odyssey, the original artifact was a messy manuscript, which had at least been touched by human hand. What's the going rate in the rare-book trade for Odyssey II-a 5-in. diskette (single side, soft sector, single density, reinforced hole ...)? Until I know, I won't press the erase button...
...during the past year, experts in the field agree, the relationship between the private biological sector and various biology departments has begun to settle down. The public has begun to realize the new companies will not provide mass-produced biological cure-alls, and financial investors no longer regard them as a quick get-rich scheme. In addition, officials at Harvard and other universities have taken advantage of the "lull" to resolve some of the basic problems that plagued the academic-private sector relationship. As one official puts it, the once highly controversial relationship "has begun to gather dust...
This year three major events marked the beginning of a more permanent relationship between Harvard and the private sector. In October, the Faculty adopted a policy defining terms for determining a professor's conflict of interest between the University and private companies. In March, a Harvard Nobel laureate announced that he would give up his tenure at the end of this year in order to dedicate himself completely to his genetic company. And finally, early this April presidents from five major universities met with officials of leading biotechnological companies to draw up tentative guidelines for creating an optimal relationship between...