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Doty said Harvard's consideration of commercial involvement in recombinant DNA research is "symptomatic of a wider movement" influenced by declining university funds, increased faculty dependence on outside sources to supplement falling income, and the desire for rapid transfer of research to industrial applications...
...systems. These are elaborate combination of computerized word and data processors, high-speed printers, telecommunications hook-ins and video display terminals used by secretaries and their bosses. And such office innovations are likely to continue. Says Wang: "The cost of parts keeps getting lower, and the applications are getting wider...
...research in such a company focuses on practical problems, while university research is more basic and wider ranging," Gilbert said, adding that "applications of research are what such a company is all about...
Growing tired of the New Republic, Lippmann moved on to the Pulitzer-owned New York World to expand his influence among a wider circe of readers. Working there until 1931, when financial difficulties forced the World, the nation's most important liberal newspaper, to fold, his political sentiments gradually shifted. Appalled by the ignorance expressed in popular opinion, Lippmann feared strict adherence to decisions determined by numerical majority could threaten the welfare and freedom of the nation. The pivotal event for Lippmann was the Chattanooga, Tenn., Scopes trial, where law-abiding officials manipulated a popular consensus to convict a young...
That makes the Israelis all the more nervous, since those weapons could be used against their own air force in a new, wider Middle East war. For tactical reasons, Saddam Hussein has softened his rhetoric when talking to conservative fellow Arabs, but he has not significantly muted his denunciations of Zionism. Israel fears that Iraq's new French-built nuclear research center may eventually produce an atomic bomb. Israeli Prime...