Word: flasco
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...points, the referee changed his decision regarding the disputed 50-yd. backstroke and decided to award Maine with both second-and third-place points. Though the Crimson had secured the win, Hays objected to the decision, "as a matter of principle," she said yesterday, adding that only after a flasco like this can she truly appreciate Harvard's sophisticated automatic timing system...
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...anything, what one source calls "the Ptashne flasco" has alerted the Faculty and the public to the supposed dangers of technology transfer. Atkinson says that while his committee's work was basically unaffected by the administration's jump into the field (see sidebar), negative feelings among senior Faculty members may have hindered efforts to encourage the surfacing of patentable ideas. While almost all sources say they envision the evolutionary development of technology transfer at Harvard, some worry that the Ptashne case may have weighted down the progress of such a program rather than accelerated it. The key factor, most...