Word: tighter
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...Association of American Universities, between 1980 and 1985 the total amount spent by industry on universities rose from $277 to $482 million. Simultaneously, the number of patents and royalties have jumped, with Harvard last year doubling its revenues from patent royalties. Ties between universities and industry are even tighter in biotechnology--a 1984 Kennedy School study revealed that as much as 25 percent of all such research in higher education is funded by companies and that such university research produces more patents than company work...
Nearly everyone who has called for financial reforms in the aftermath of Black Monday has a common item to recommend: tighter controls on stock-index futures. These relatively new instruments, which enable buyers to place bets on the up-and-down movements of the stock market as a whole, have been accused of intensifying the market's mood swings. But a turf battle has erupted between two Government agencies over which one deserves the right to crack the whip. Should it be the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, which presides over futures trading in soybeans and pork bellies, or its sister...
...compensate for the tighter deadlines, thedeans waived penalty fees for dropping and addingcourses during the second week of classes andrequired professors to have syllabi available byregistration day. Council member Thomas D. Warren'88 said he had objected to an earlier draft ofthe plan that did not contain these provisions...
...increasing scale according to "how quickly a job is completed. Thus, managers pressure their employees even when work is on schedule." All the shortcuts in safety and security are taken, according to this source, because the environment remains "meet the schedule or else. And the schedules are tighter than before the Challenger accident...
Whatta Race: Although Colgate's win over Harvard didn't kick the Crimson out of first place in the ECAC, it sure made the standings tighter...