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Rudenstine's other unification efforts, such as ADAPT, have not met with the same approval however...

Author: By James Y. Stern, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Academic Advisory Group Helps Determine University's Future | 10/1/1998 | See Source »

Rudenstine created the $50 million initiative, Project ADAPT, aimed at coordinating financial record-keeping in the different schools. It will bring new computer software to offices across campus to centralize purchasing, benefits, grant management, payroll, accounts payable and receivable, and hiring...

Author: By James Y. Stern, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Academic Advisory Group Helps Determine University's Future | 10/1/1998 | See Source »

Sources say Harvard's schools have been upset by the amount of personal autonomy Project ADAPT forces them to sacrifice for the cause of unifying the University information systems...

Author: By James Y. Stern, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Academic Advisory Group Helps Determine University's Future | 10/1/1998 | See Source »

...society lauded Solbrig for demonstrating "both through field studies and experimental manipulations, how dandelions adapt through genetic modifications to different environmental situations...

Author: By Michael E. Thakur, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Knowles and Solbrig Honored for Scientific Achievements | 9/22/1998 | See Source »

...while the current financial collapse may cause panic outside the country, for Russians life goes on as usual. The manufacturing sector, after all, failed from the start: State-owned factories -- churning out goods that people no longer wanted -- were unable to adapt to a market in which consumers had a choice. "Much of the country has lived, literally, without money for years," says TIME Moscow bureau chief Paul Quinn-Judge. "The meltdown in Moscow is simply bringing it into line with the rest of Russia." By comparison, consider China's transition to capitalism: The Communists never relinquished tight political control...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russia Goes Post-Yeltsin | 8/28/1998 | See Source »

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