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...Will the National Institutes of Health--the major source of research money for medical institutions--abandon "indirect cost-blind" peer review, with science taking a back seat to funds...

Author: By Gady A. Epstein, | Title: The GAO Directs Its Attention to Indirect Costs | 6/6/1991 | See Source »

...forthcoming book, The New Corporate Frontier, author David Heenan, chief executive of Hawaii's Theo. H. Davies conglomerate, argues that a vast new American migration is under way as companies abandon big cities and old- line industrial regions. Says he: "The corporate downsizing of the 1980s proved that you don't need a Pentagon-size bureaucracy to run a business. Downsizing led to outsourcing of suppliers, and has now led to a movement to ship out the whole company. After all, with new technologies, you can run even a global business out of a small town." He's right. Just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Come On Down! Fast! | 5/27/1991 | See Source »

...consent decree also forces the Ivy League colleges to abandon their long-standing agreement to base financial aid solely on need and not merit...

Author: By Philip P. Pan, | Title: Time for A Bidding War? | 5/24/1991 | See Source »

...universities are beginning to confront tighter budgets, some say they will also face increased pressure to abandon their expensive need-blind admissions policies...

Author: By Philip P. Pan, | Title: Time for A Bidding War? | 5/24/1991 | See Source »

...supporter of a strong U.S. military and reduced government spending. But his approval of abortion and advocacy of limits on oil drilling would appeal to youngish suburbanites, who, for the first time, may be a majority of voters in next year's race. G.O.P. conservatives are not likely to abandon a Bush-Wilson ticket, but there is a political risk: if it won, Wilson would have to leave California in the hands of a Democratic Lieutenant Governor and the Democratic-led legislature...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Five Who Fit the Bill | 5/20/1991 | See Source »

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