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...world's second largest maker of custom computer chips; for allegedly transferring technology, funds and personnel to Chinese start-up He Jian Technology, in violation of laws prohibiting the establishment of high-tech semiconductor plants on the mainland without special approval; in Taipei. The two are also charged with "breach of trust" for allegedly acting against the interests of UMC shareholders. The company has denied the allegations, calling the indictments "purely political...
...International Bhd. of Correctional Officers, Local R1-193, 62 Mass.App.Ct. 830, 831-832 (2005). A deputy sheriff has authority to take actions that a private person would not have in similar circumstances. A deputy sheriff may make warrantless arrests for misdemeanors, but only if the misdemeanor involves a breach of the peace, occurs in their presence or view, and continues at the time of arrest. See Commonwealth v. Howe, 405 Mass. 332, 334 (1989); Commonwealth v. Grise, 398 Mass. 247, 251- 252 (1986). The fact that some individual HUPD officers have been appointed deputy sheriffs, or special State police officers...
...Instead, Hwang acknowledged that the images published in Science were problematic, but provided his own explanation: that the stem cells were somehow mismanaged or possibly switched. In January, his team at Seoul National University had created six patient-specific stem cell lines, but they became contaminated. They reported the breach to the government and rescued two batches which they stored temporarily at their partner lab in Mizmedi Hospital. After Hwang's lab was cleaned and new sterilization procedures put into place, the stem cell lines came back to Hwang's lab. His team then went on to create six more...
...services purchased by the University by 21 percent to $274 million.The University also incurred “certain legal settlement costs,” the report said. Harvard’s balance sheet for fiscal 2005 includes a $26.5 million payment to the U.S. government to settle a breach of contract suit.The settlement stemmed from a civil fraud complaint brought against the University, economist Andrei Shleifer ’82, and former Harvard employee Jonathan Hay.The annual report also revealed some of the financial plans for the Eli and Edythe L. Broad Institute, a biomedical research center established jointly...
...outcry was not only from the Harvard College Republicans—a group that incidentally has become so marginalized that is has been reduced to sending out whinny emails when it is offended by something. But voices all over campus stood up to denounce what they saw as a breach of the UC’s fundamental purpose, which apparently is wasting money on concerts that never happen and failing to extend dining hall hours...