Word: dormantly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...University's patents (on Ptashne's work) to the new firm. In exchange, it would become a minority shareholder in the company and would receive royalities on at least some of the patents without investing any money. Aside from promoting the development of patents that might have lain dormant, Harvard stood to win big, putting only its reputation on the line...
...lost by large margins The so-called reconciliation process, however, allows the budget committees, with the agreement of a majority of both houses, to commit individual appropriation committees to fixed ceilings in a spending package. This method has existed since the Budget Act of 1974, but it remained essentially dormant until recently. Under this procedure, the benefits to the average taxpayer of huge budget cuts are clear, and the cost to any special interest is diluted. A vote against cash benefits for one's constituents can far more easily be defended as a regrettable part of a much broader...
...Holocaust Kingdom by Alexander Donat (361 pages; $8.95, paperback) typically records the last days of the Warsaw ghetto and the will of a child to appeal the world's sentence of death. The Politics of Rescue by Henry L. Feingold (416 pages; $7.95, paperback) revives the long-dormant question: How could the democracies of the West refuse to admit people whose need for sanctuary was a matter of life and death? In this expanded and updated edition, Historian Feingold sifts through the memorandums of state departments to find that guilt lay not only with insensitive agencies and nations...
...Monday's practice, Harder shuffled a few key skaters on two lines rather than three in an effort to awaken a dormant scoring punch. She has assembled a dramatically improved hockey team which can skate evenly with any squad, especially after it adjusts to the changes...
...think the committee has ever been involved in anything except the protests in the late sixties." Buckley said, adding that "it's been dormant so long I don't even know what it means to serve as a member...