Word: functions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When Johnson & Johnson introduced a new fiber-glass casting tape for broken bones several years ago, executives at Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing flew into a rage. The tape, which sets fractures faster than plaster, was remarkably similar in design and function to a casting tape developed by 3M scientists. The St. Paul-based company quickly sued, charging J&J with violating four of its patents. Last month a federal court backed 3M and ordered J&J to pay $116 million in damages and interest -- the fourth largest patent-infringement judgment in history...
...sometimes forget that besides providing merriment for us yokels, show business performs an even more valuable social function. It provides livelihoods and a home for thousands of certifiable lunatics. The savings to our overburdened health-care system are simply incalculable...
...would be this lateral function that would be important. It's the University-wide perspective and the capacity to think, plan and move the institution that way rather than within the context and confines of each separate school," Rudenstine says...
...more academic fields overlap and more activities emerge that require cooperation among the faculties, that function becomes more and more important for the University...
...things stand now, that function would fall to the president. But the president has so many other things to do, that type of collaborative activity ultimately suffers...