Word: cuttingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Because the discovery was made under Harvard's aegis, the patent for the new chemical belongs to the University, and the two professors will receive a huge cut of any future roylaties. And profits from the discovery will soon flow in, as Cambridge Bioscience, a biotechnology firm in Worcester, has already bought a license to develop and market GP120. This seems to have all gone according to the book--the redbook containing Harvard's research and patenting policies, that...
...Washington, Islamabad and the rebels are all learning, success in negotiations can prove as tricky as winning on the battlefield. In Washington there has been widespread confusion in recent weeks about when the U.S. would cut off aid to the resistance under a peace agreement. Some U.S. officials have said that the assistance would be gradually reduced as the Soviets pull out. But the U.S. has already agreed, through the Pakistani negotiators in the U.N.-sponsored Geneva talks, to cut off military aid ($630 million in 1987) at the point when the Soviets begin to withdraw. Fearing that the mujahedin...
...They were the New Centurions all over again," said District Attorney John Holmes. "They were frustrated at all the legal rules, so they cut corners." A Harris County grand jury is probing the scandal, but prosecution of the narcotics officers may be difficult because so many of their targets were case-hardened criminals. Ironically, a few of the dealers bagged by the unit and now in prison may be eligible for pardons...
...Soviets claim a twelve-mile territorial limit, while the U.S. asserts the so-called right of innocent passage, which permits ships to stay on course even when they cut across that limit. The Soviets might well question the term innocent, knowing that the Caron is packed with high-powered intelligence- gathering gear...
...University of Iowa political scientist. "It was a strong, sharp image coming across, with a gut feeling of patriotism." The Missouri Congressman's trade plan touches on nativist fears, and he rivals the Walter Mondale of 1984 in interest-group pandering. But he was the only Democrat to cut through the deficit doldrums to touch on deeper economic fears. "We are losing our standard of living," Gephardt warned in countless speeches, and union members, farmers and the elderly nodded their assent...