Word: basics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...proposal called Harvard to invest in a company being started by a Medical School professor, while the new program does not include Harvard's money. And Harvard's profits from the new program will be earmarked for basic research, Bok said...
...said was a record of neglect and indifference on health care issues, Dukakis said, "today he's visiting a flag factory. Mr. Bush, don't you think it's about time you came out from behind that flag and told us what you intend to do to provide basic health care for 37 million of our fellow citizens...
...factors pressing for university-industry involvement have become more compelling in recent years. The fact is that academia needs the money. Support for basic scientific research from the federal government and private sources has fallen drastically in the last 20 years, making it harder for schools to bankroll the expensive work performed in today's labs. Harvard has promised that the 10 percent in profits it receives will be devoted to faculty research...
...speed the legal system. Unless we can break the logjam in our courts and prisons, any increase in crime (due to the social stress we will surely experience) may undermine the rule of law entirely. If we must sacrifice certain safeguards and privileges, it will be to retain our basic liberties...
...Daley Thompson has been the natural heir to Jim Thorpe, she would be the Seoul beneficiary of Babe Didrikson Zaharias. Joyner-Kersee and Thompson, the two-time Olympic decathlon champion, puffing for three, embody all the basic wonders of the Games and encompass almost every grade of emotion. One is just arriving at a place the other has been straining to maintain. She's the blur; he's the mist. They have a "special understanding," as he likes to put it, and a few things...