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...tape, old story
...pursuit of pure knowledge be compatible with the pursuit of profit? Some observers are skeptical. Corporate funding provides a boost to research and is relatively free of the red tape that often entangles Government grants. Yet one ideal of a university, however fitfully adhered to, is the sharing of information. Most contract grants between business and universities allow the donor corporation to review findings before publication, ensure exclusive patent rights and sometimes keep key data secret so competitors will not get them. While many technological breakthroughs have resulted from purely theoretical research, corporations tend to be more interested in encouraging...
...Tape...
...more ambitious than Prince of the City, which tells the story of a detective in a free-wheeling narcotics unit who decides to go undercover to battle against police corruption. From the day Danny Ciello (Treat Williams) decides to turn on his fellow officers and surreptitiously "wear a wire" (tape recorder), Prince takes a relentlessly compelling journey through the value system of the entire profession. But there is a fatal flaw that prevents the movie from capturing the meaning of Ciello's "turning." The character even says it himself early in the story, when confronted by two ambitious prosecutors...
...executives say that synfuel development will now be easier because the red tape attached to Government subsidies under the Carter Administration has largely been removed. Explains J.F. Trautschold Jr., general manager of Mobil's synfuels division: "If we had solicited money from the Government, we would have had to hire probably ten more auditors just to meet the Energy Department's demand for information...