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...filed a suit of its own in the U.S. district court in Concord, N.H., after dis covering that the three sets of patent numbers on the Top-Sider sole had expired in 1955, 1957 and 1959. While Top-Sider has since removed the numbers from its soles, its attorneys contend that the use of the expired patent numbers was not illegal...
While Israeli military officials appreciate the help, some of them contend that the high cost of modern weapons rapidly consumes the U.S. funding that Israel gets. Nearly half of Israel's 1982 military aid from the U.S., for example, would buy and equip only 20 F-15 jet fighters...
...Opren, took place after the Committee on Safety of Medicines, the equivalent of the FDA, reported that it had received notice of more than 3,500 adverse reactions linked to the drug, including the 61 deaths, many of them associated with liver, kidney or gastrointestinal damage. U.S. consumer groups contend that there was no way that Lilly could not have known about the 28 British deaths that occurred prior to the drug's U.S. approval in April. Indeed, accounts of some deaths from liver disease, all among the elderly, were reported to the government in late 1981 and appeared...
...College has its own bureaucratic channels to complement the Faculty's. At the top of this flow-chart is John B. Fox, Jr. '59, dean of the College. A lot of students contend that they understand less about what Fox does than they do about Bok or Rosovsky, who are even more removed from College life. This is understandable because Fox has no responsibility for curriculum issues and only supervises the administration of the College with his team of assistant deans. But don't be mistaken. Fox affects student's lives with activities ranging from presiding over the Administrative Board...
Industrial experts like William Abernathy and Robert Hayes, professors at the Harvard Business School, think that the burden of revitalizing industry must ultimately rest on corporate managers. They contend that U.S. business executives have paid too much attention to finance and marketing and have neglected basic production techniques, the kind of fine details of efficiency that make Japanese companies so successful...