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Gulf is also enmeshed in a web of lawsuits growing out of allegations that it secretly participated in a worldwide cartel to manipulate supplies and raise the price of uranium. Though the cartel's impact on U.S. prices remains uncertain, the world price of uranium has gone from $6 a pound in 1972 to about $44 today. At worst, Gulf, which denies the charge, could be forced to pay $1 billion or more in damages to companies in the uranium business. McAfee predicts that, at most, the various court actions could cost Gulf no more than $360 million. Last week...
...melange of institutions regulating recombinant DNA research and the chaotic legislative attempts to oversee such experimentation vastly complicates the efforts to standardize regulations. The success or failure of devising a satisfactory regulatory process is still an open question. Less uncertain is Harvard's future role. As a sponsor of much of the important recombinant DNA research conducted in the country, Harvard has a huge stake in this issue. The University will clearly continue to use its considerable lobbying clout to shape the outcome...
These are the kinds of stories that leave Harvard administrators and tenants feeling uncertain about their futures. Changes are kept secret, until they are finalized and then presented as a fait accompli. But like any other story, there are two sides to explain the new Harvard Real Estate Corporation. Wyatt declines to say that Harvard has managed its real estate holdings poorly, accumulating large deficits and creating communication problems with tenants. He does says that a corporation, a centralized bureaucracy, can better deal with the unique kinds of problems which arise in the real estate business. Wyatt explains that...
...trying to make sure that they control the 41 votes needed to prevent any shut-off or cloture of their "extended debate." Hatch claims that the opponents have enough votes to keep debate going through the first four or five cloture votes, but after that the count becomes more uncertain...
...brainwashing technique known as subliminal communication. A movie theater found that if its films included tiny blips of commercials for popcorn and soda -moving past so quickly that the viewer did not consciously realize he was seeing them-popcorn and soda sales went up. These results were highly uncertain, though, and the technique was abandoned. Since 1957 it has been against FCC policy to permit subliminal techniques on television. Last month, however, the agency made an emergency exception...