Word: development
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Officials explained that a company will often not develop a product if it believes that other companies will use advanced technology it has developed but is unable to protect...
...granting of an exclusive license to Biogen follows a University trend in biotechnology, despite written and public statements by officials that the University prefers to grant non-exclusive licenses to any company that wants to develop a given invention...
...chairman of Ford Motor: "The federal budget deficit and the trade deficit are basic problems threatening the country's long-run health and the standard of living for all Americans." Unless the President and Congress deal with those problems, they cannot be sure that the economic recovery will develop from its lusty infancy to a ripe...
...therefore salute Anthony B. Gliedman, New York City commissioner of housing preservation and development, who is carrying on a program worthy of Potemkin at his most imaginative. Confronted with the dilapidation and general ruin of the buildings he is assigned to preserve and develop, Gliedman has found an ingenious solution. He pastes vinyl decals over the broken windows of the city's abandoned slum tenements to convey an illusion of cheery life inside. Some of the decals look like curtains, some like Venetian blinds; some even contain illusory flowerpots, where illusory geraniums blossom in an illusory sunshine...
...came in the pretty much made it clear to everyone that they were going to go into the computer business," an uncharted territory for BBN. While the computer division did not turn a profit until 1982, its early contracts have been encouraging, yielding a major deal to develop the MCI Mail communications system along with a boom in computer contracts with the Defense Department. Last year, approximately 80 percent of the firm's $85 million sales came through government agreements...