Word: development
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...twelve professionals and a support staff of 15, is housed in a stucco mansion on the Pace University campus and runs on an annual budget of $1.6 million, met largely through foundation grants and contributions from its 11,000 members. In addition to publishing regularly, the Hastings ethicists develop model legislation, draw up guidelines for public policy, consult in such tortured cases as Karen Anne Quinlan's fate and assist universities in setting up ethics departments. "People used to think of medical ethics as between doctor and patient at the bedside," says Callahan. "We consider wider public policy, how Government...
Genentech, Inc. will use a Columbia-patented method developed by Professor of Biochemistry and Pathology Richard Axel and colleagues to develop a drug that could help sufferers of heart attacks, The Spectator reported...
...surprising that the Soviet leader wanted to impose restraints on the U.S. program to develop a defense against ballistic missiles based on advanced technology and nuclear weapons. Gorbachev has maintained that the U.S. Strategic Defense Initiative, known popularly as "Star Wars," would mean extending the arms race into outer space...
...many other companies, however, telecommuting seems to please both labor and management. Mountain Bell claims that its telecommuters are 35% to 40% more productive than in-office counterparts. Says William Benham, chairman of the company's telecommuting division: "Employees who work at home develop independent work habits. They learn to set goals." He predicts that by 1995 one-third of the 69,000-member work force at Mountain Bell's parent company, U S West, will be telecommuting...
Berkeley has also distributed more than 1000 copies of a handbook called "AIDS Education on the College Campus," which resulted from a state grant the school received to develop a model for AIDS education on campus, Vaughn says...