Word: firm
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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What is particularly disheartening is that this story comes only a few weeks after the Medical School's announcement of its venture capital firm to help attract commercial funds for professors' research. At the time, Medical School officials went to great lengths to assure the University it could prevent professors' financial interests from influencing their research...
...month later than usual in identifying the three prevalent strains, according to Beth Waters, spokesperson for Connaught, a Swiftwater-based pharmaceutical firm...
...colonizers. Simon Bolivar and other Latin American revolutionaries tried to emulate the American Constitution, but their carefully crafted documents were quickly subverted by strongmen. When Augustin de Iturbide, Mexico's George Washington, assumed power in 1822, for example, he immediately had himself crowned Emperor. The Great Experiment never took firm root in Mexico or the rest of Latin America, causing a great deal of misunderstanding that persists to this...
...their faith in the value of the finite resource by bidding a combined $7.3 billion for the oil and natural-gas assets of Houston-based Tenneco, which is selling those properties to concentrate on its gas-pipeline and construction- equipment businesses. Chevron agreed to pay $2.6 billion for the firm's stakes in the Gulf of Mexico, while T. Boone Pickens' firm, Mesa Limited Partnership, will pay $715 million for Tenneco's midcontinent reserves...
...sources close to the fashion firm of James Galanos also say Mrs. Reagan has continued to borrow dresses. "If it's something she needs to borrow, she does borrow, but otherwise she buys," said Pat Jones, an assistant to Galanos. Chris Blazakis, who worked closely with Galanos since 1982 and was executive vice president of Galanos Originals from 1983 until 1985, insists that Galanos had told him that Mrs. Reagan generally did not pay for dresses and that the only time she returned one was when she wanted it repaired. Blazakis, who left the Galanos firm on friendly terms...