Word: contract
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...project announced Thursday has been hailed by academics as a breakthrough in CIA-university relations because the agency has agreed to abandon its usual contract terms and meet Harvard's strict guidelines on keeping research independent of sponsor control. Yet the comments made yesterday by K-School Academic Dean Albert Carnesale indicate that there is concern that the work of the $1.2 million dollar project be kept clear of all agency influence...
Under the agreement, which is considered to be the first Harvard- CIA project in recent years, the agency will forego its normal contract procedures with the result that it will be known publicly as the funder and will not ask for pre-publication review of the results...
Academics contacted yesterday, including President Bok, said they are confident that the contract terms will assure the independence of the research. Carnesale said Kline's role in the project also needs to be limited...
Negotiations between Yale University and its clerical and maintenance unions have made little progress and an informal deadline for an contract agreement has passed, but both sides this week said they remain optimistic they can avoid a strike...
...cases, but Luxembourg officials demanded they be opened. Inside they found equipment for the manufacture of so-called bubble memory chips, a U.S.-made state-of-the-art semiconductor ideally suited for storing guidance information in missiles. A French firm named Les Accessoires Scientifiques had signed a $7 million contract to provide the Soviets with an entire factory for producing the precious chips...