Word: beginnings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Rita E. Hauser, one of Harvard's national campaign chairs, gave $5 million to begin the University Women's Matching Fund, aiming to elicit significant gifts from women donors by doubling their donations (See story below...
...they called endostatin, from yet another naturally occurring protein. Together, the two compounds destroyed a range of tumors in mice. The results were startling enough that they merited testing in people--which is exactly what Pluda, at the National Cancer Institute, intends to do. How fast those studies can begin depends on how much angiostatin and endostatin EntreMed and its business partner, Bristol-Myers Squibb, can produce and whether they can figure out which fragment to focus on first...
...American Airlines plans to provide travel packages specifically designed for seniors on its website. Net users clicking onto SeniorCom www.senior.com can find a range of products from Hold-Up Suspenders to hearing-aid batteries. "By the end of '98," predicts marketing professor Mohan Sawhney of Northwestern University, "you'll begin to see far more targeted commerce." Sites that are community centered, he says, will eventually attract clients "that will be the Procter & Gambles of the world." In some cases that is already happening. Last summer Mary Furlong, the founder of the nonprofit Senior Net educational centers, created the definitely...
...think it's seen just as a hobby of mine," Allen tells his sister Letty early in the movie, when the band and entourage are flying across the Atlantic to begin the tour. Any nervousness about the presence of Kopple's camera is small potatoes next to his genuine stagefright at the prospect in front of him: weeks of one-night-only stops in Paris, Madrid, Turin, and other Old World cities, playing to audiences who know little about primitivist New Orleans jazz (which the band renders with real zest) but who know a great deal about...
...deeper understanding of themselves or have more freedom in their lives unless you have confidentiality and they know that they will have control over what goes out of my office?" Bursztajn said of his psychiatric patients. "If you don't have confidentiality, then you really are asking people to begin to systematically keep from physicians the information the [doctors] need to know...