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Cambridge city councilors have lately begun calling for massive protest demonstrations, for example, '"I'll go to court to block Proposition 2 1/2. And I'll lead a march on the State House," Cambridge city manager James L. Sullivan, who has been in the forefront of the anti-2 1/2 effort since the fall, added...
...decision was not a sign that the Corporation no longer wants the University to benefit from its potentially lucrative DNA patents. That desire spawned this first proposal a venture conceived almost entirely without academic considerations. While Faculty and outside discussion of the issue brought the academic questions to the forefront, the seven-member Corporation came precariously close to approving a business move that might have seriously impaired academic values...
...pack of 225 runners broke from the starting line, North Carolina and the University of Arizona established themselves at the forefront and never let up. The Tar Heels swept the meet with first, second, and fifth place finishers for a devastating 76 points, and Univ. Arizona and Univ. Virginia came in second and third...
...system would fall hardest on West Germany, which has invested more than $1 billion annually since the 1950s on new steel facilities and is Europe's most efficient producer. Says West German Economics Minister Count Otto Lambsdorff: "Our industry must not be penalized for having been in the forefront of modernization." But after weeks of bitter wrangling, the Europeans overcame West German objections and last week agreed to an unprecedented Common Market quota system that will reduce overall production by an average of 13% to 18% for nine months. The West Germans bluntly doubt that the plan will work...
Kuffler worked the very last day of his life on research at the forefront of his field," Terrence J. Sejnowski, a research fellow who worked with Kuffler, said yesterday...