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Technically, the Ptashe case did involve the concept of "technology transfer," a buzzword indicating the process by which discoveries and inventions made in university laboratories are brought to the marketplace. The clarification of federal patent regulations in recent years has given universities the incentive to ferret out potential patents and to license them to developers. Toward this end, Harvard established a Committee on Patents and Copyrights (CPC), which began work in 1977 under the chairmanship of Henry C. Meadow, dean for planning and special projects in the Faculty of Medicine, and which, according to executive director Stephen H. Atkinson...
...place of his son, Filartiga appears to have adopted a nation. He speaks of "my people," not as a politician would carelessly sling around the tired buzzword, but as a father who has expanded his household to embrace a country...
While newness is the buzzword for Crimson hockey, at least one tradition will stay put--the ECAC voted provisionally this week not to requre face-masks along with the already-mandatory helmets. Crimson skaters had not been fond of the masks. "The general feeling towards the masks is hatred," one player commented...
Trilling believes in the old rules: the manner and social graces that went out with parietals and dress codes. When Harvard men moved to the Quad, students forgot the rules. The word manners became a buzzword for "elitist" and style was for snobs. The result? Loneliness...
...help the military "regain our bearings." Says he: "Today's ranks are filled with officers who have been weaned on slogans and fads of the sort preached in the better business schools-that rational managerial concepts will cure all evils. This course is my defense against the buzzword-nomograph-acronym mentality...