Word: acted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...legal argument works like this: While the 1890 Sherman Anti-Trust Act prohibits private corporations from colluding to set prices or any other business arrangement in private, exceptions apply in cases that serve the public interest. Universities contend that by agreeing on fair financial aid awards among themselves, they deliver more aid to more deserving students...
...They want very much to act promptly and want to conclude the matter this year," Sachs said...
Most important, if the Justice Department finds that these schools have violated the Anti-Trust Act--a conclusion that is likely given the government's need to produce results since it has so far only spouted rhetoric--it will simply demand an end to such practices without allowing for a new form of regulation. And an end to the "overlap group" and other such discussions among schools will mean an end to the practice of setting across-the-board financial aid levels according to need...
...only sacrifice in the North. The need for energy-efficient and environmentally useful technologies could create an enormous untapped market -- one that several of the world's economic powers have already begun to explore. At the same time, there are ways for the South to clean up its own act. Some developing nations run up more than a third of their debt buying arms. Surely at least some of the $200 billion a year that poorer countries lavish on their military establishments could be better spent on saving the environment...
Working with a bacterium and a pond-dwelling protozoan, Altman, 50, and Cech, 41, independently discovered that RNA can act as an enzyme, a molecule that accelerates chemical reactions a millionfold or more and makes it possible for life to exist. Plants, for example, depend on enzymes to convert carbon dioxide in the air to sugar and starch. An enzyme in human saliva helps transform starch into glucose, the body's energy source. Until RNA enzymes were identified, all enzymes were thought to be proteins...