Word: chats
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...public excitement about gene splicing, Boyer got an unexpected telephone call from Robert Swanson, a young venture capitalist. Swanson wanted to discuss the commercial possibilities of the new science, and many scientists might have kept him at arm's length. Boyer invited Swanson to his lab for a chat but told him he could only spare 20 minutes. The two hit it off so well they went on talking over beers at a local pub for nearly four hours. Recalls Swanson: "All the academics I called said commercial application of gene splicing was ten years away. Herb didn...
Unfortunately, very few people will ever have the chance to chat with Ronald Reagan--to hear his rhetoric broken down into its components. And even in person, the president's grace and good nature make it hard not to feel secure, even trusting. Yet to understand what Reagan stands for and how he views the world, we must listen with a highly critical ear to what he says and decide whether or not we can ever recapture the culture of Reagan's youth, and if we even want...
...there did not cluster around him but came one by one to chat with Reagan, who talked of the rundown condition in which he had found the White House, of his adjustments to life in the mansion. It was unspectacular and disarming. The President left as quietly as he came...
Derek C. Bok, dean of the Law School, impressed the University's powers-that-be with his cool handling of this miniature crisis. He showed up to drink coffee and chat with the self-styled rebels. He assured them he would consider their demands very carefully. They went home. The Law School escaped turmoil, and Bok became known as Harvard's finest crisis manager...
...knees, kissed the papal ring and bowed his head. A devout Catholic who tries to attend Mass daily, Walesa at first resisted when the Pope tried to lift him from his knees. John Paul then ushered the union leader into the library for a half-hour private chat. One presumed topic of their conversation: how to keep the itchier members of Walesa's organization from touching off a Soviet invasion...