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Officials in the nation's capital have also noticed the potential benefits a genome map could reap, and are currently debating whether to fund a full-scale sequencing effort. Sen. Peter Domenici (D.N.M.) has introduced a bill that would establish a national gene mapping "initiative" and the Department of Energy has designated three national laboratories to conduct work on the project. The National Institutes of Health (NIH), the federal agency which funds most biomedical research in the nation, also plans to send more resources to a genome mapping effort...
...James Baker become a goldbug? Not exactly, but the distinguished bankers and ministers from around the world who gathered in Washington last week for a meeting of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund were startled to hear the U.S. Treasury Secretary suggest a new role for gold in international economic affairs. To be sure, Baker was not advocating a return to the gold standard, in which the price of the precious metal would be fixed in all the major currencies. But the Secretary said countries might use an index of the worldwide prices of gold and other heavily traded...
...Dukakis straightarrow image has been selling well. He has shown great success in fund raising, which helped him enter the first tier of candiates, Goldman said...
...organization reportedly had raised only half of the $2 million she once said was needed to run a credible campaign, despite a series of "Run, Pat, Run" fund-raisers held nationwide on September 20. Those gatherings had been expected to raise as much as $700,000, but her office never has released a figure on how much money actually was brought...
...certainly does not live up to the standards of an institution that considers itself a bastion of idealism. "People apply a different standard to Harvard's commercial real estate operations than they would to a commercial developer," says Gladys Gifford of the Harvard Square Defense Fund...