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Still, despite the University's trademark enthusiasm, it will be a few months before Harvard sees a profit on the venture, said Sylvia J. Struss, who administers the program. Straus attributed this delay to high initial costs and bureaucratic red tape involved in the process...
...construction plans have been stalled by environmental opposition -- ironic considering the good safety record of the transmission companies -- as well as the lumbering federal bureaucracy. Complains Theodore Eck, chief economist of Amoco, owner of the largest U.S. natural-gas reserves: "The endless hearings and harassment and bureaucratic red tape are excessive...
...recent years U.S. companies have conceded one homegrown industry after another to more aggressive and competitive foreign rivals. First came cameras, then televisions, tape recorders, stereo equipment and semiconductors. Last week Cincinnati Milacron, the last independent U.S. producer of heavy industrial robots, agreed to sell the business to a subsidiary of Switzerland's Asea Brown Boveri...
...essence the play is a debate about the independence of art from the artist. Through use of a tape-recorder, the narrator and the director exchange insults. "YER MAN" refuses to perform large sections of the play out of spite, Nash threatens to slap him with hemorrhoids. The narrator, a seasoned artistic creation, joins the union of characters who meet surreptitiously in the recesses of the writer's mind to plot his overthrow. He laments the creation of new, politically native characters who flood the job market...
...Saddam formally designated the oil-rich land of Kuwait the 19th province of Iraq. Although Baghdad promised that the estimated 11,000 women and children among its 21,000 Western hostages would be free to leave last Wednesday, most of those who chose to depart were delayed by red tape. On Friday 19 Italians managed to depart, and the next day several hundred other foreigners were flown...