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While the 1992 European patent had fully protected the method of genetic manipulation used by John Emory Andrus Professor of Genetics Philip Leder ’56, then-Harvard researcher Timothy Stewart and DuPont, the ruling marks an additional step back from a 2001 decision that restricted it to rodents...
...NICOLAS DUPONT-AIGNAN...
...well run for the presidency of the party at its next general convention in November. If he doesn't run, he'll certainly put up a "sarkoziste" for that post, running against a Chirac loyalist. And that doesn't begin to exhaust the currents within the ump. Nicolas Dupont-Aignan, 43, for example, says he wants to lead the party back to its Gaullist roots. "The President's positions on the constitution and on Turkey are untenable - the party doesn't want to go with him," he says. "We need to put France first." Many younger conservatives, though...
...Public Interest Research Group. "But it could dramatically weaken the program." Companies want to limit liability and shift responsibility to the states, where rules are more flexible. Federal standards are "rigid and extreme," says Michael Steinberg of the Superfund Settlements Project, an industry group that includes General Electric, DuPont and IBM. "Groundwater must meet standards for tap water, even though at many of these sites no one drinks it. Soil at many sites must be clean enough so people could play in it. The costs exceed the benefits...
...such as Dell's efforts to improve inventory turns, instead of industry-altering ideas. The tool for smacking a line drive is the "growth budget," which allocates specific resources to achieve targeted gains. "This discipline can change the whole psychology of a company," says Charan. It has certainly helped Dupont, which now budgets more R.-and-D. funds to its fastest-growing areas instead of equally across the board...