Word: gain
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...nine Bell follows are young professionals who will gain training for leadership roles in the fields of population and development...
...professors, not corporations. We would like to assume that the former have societal interests in mind, while the latter, by their very nature, are primarily concerned with profit. Professors must be free to pursue any of their ideas, especially if those projects are removed from possibility of financial gain. But it is important to ensure that the interests of the professors remain uncorrupted by the interests of companies they found, on whose board they serve or whose stock they own. Full disclosure of financial investments by faculty member who use Harvard's resources is a necessary prerequisite for those investments...
...substantive interest in the results of our research was enlarged by possibility of financial gain. Until this year, Harvard engaged in an extensive series of licensing agreements with independent companies. These firms proceeded to produce and distribute drugs and biotechnology products through a profit-sharing agreement with us. Now the University, with the consultation of Deans or their designees, may accept shares of such firms, with this ownership opening possibilities of huge increases of capital income...
...country and his family's problems. When Christine works in the fields with Gito's family, she laughingly comments on how she can easily lose weight with this kind of activity. Gito quickly responds, "Here they don't do it to lose the weight, they do it to gain some...
...resolution. PBHA says it hopes to gain control of the hiring and firing of its professional staff. This move would separate the roles of director of Phillips Brooks House (PBHA), that will be assumed by Kidd January 1, and the director of PBHA, the organization's student run board...