Word: access
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Doherty said the new leadership positions will probably help the City in terms of increased constituent services, greater access to the state for the City Council, and a larger chunk of urban housing grants, especially from Graham's committee...
...charge leveled at Japan is that it uses cheap labor in other Asian countries but is unwilling to share technology. Says C.C. Chen, senior vice president of the International Commercial Bank of China in Taiwan: "What we need from foreign investment is not so much capital as access to technology. But the Japanese are not going to divulge any trade secrets, even to their joint-venture partners." When South Korea's President Chun Doo Hwan visited Tokyo last fall, he brought a shopping list of 47 technologies in industries ranging from textiles to computers. So far, Japanese companies have refused...
...year-old founder of Apple Computer, and ordered his Cabinet to simplify the procedures for setting up new companies. Gaston Defferre, Minister for Planning, flew to Pittsburgh in November to pursue an agreement with Carnegie-Mellon University, which heads a 17-campus consortium that offers French firms direct access to U.S. research in automated manufacturing, robotics, artificial intelligence and computer- based education. "In Gaullist times French identity was to be defended against American domination," says Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, author (The American Challenge) and former Cabinet minister who heads the government's computer-development agency. "Now instead of being afraid...
...called "T Party" included a race across. Boston Harbor, where participants either rode their bikes, took the cycles in a canoe, or (by special dispensation) traveled with their bikes on the subway to the opposite shore. Although the event was supposed to publicize the need for cyclists to have access to the subway, the canoe proved the fastest way across the harbor...
...original biographer named by Merton's literary executors. The author provides some fresh details about the 30 years that Merton treated in Seven Storey Mountain, but the book's most fascinating contribution involves the second half of Merton's life. The executors gave Mott exclusive access to his subject's extensive journals of 1956-68, which, at Merton's direction, will not be released until...