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...industry of those concepts into practical application, is often a complementary process. The complementary nature of their activities, however, simply throws into relief the basic difference between universities and industries the academic imperative to seek knowledge objectively and in share it openly and freely; and the industrial imperative to garner a profit, which frequently creates the incentive to treat knowledge as private property...
With only two players graduated from the team that Street and Smith Basket ball yearbook picked to garner the Ivy crown last year. You'd think McLaughlin would have little to worry about But after last year's 11-15 overall finish (6-8 in the Ivies), the pundits pick Harvard to bush sixth in the eight team league...
Players will not garner a percentage from television profits Klitgaard said calling that the "big issue...
After the audience, the ones who suffer most in this movie are the actors, and not because they are maimed eaten, or resurrected as zombies. E.G. Marshall's role should garner the Laurence Olivier/Inchon bread winning award; even the Maalox commercials are a better fate than what happens to him here (hint: the cockroaches.) The other principal actors--Hal Holbrook, Fritz Weaver, Leslie Nielsen, and Adrienne Barbeau--fare little better, and the entire cast seems rather confused and uncomfortable with the material. The one mild surprise is King himself, who in his acting debut plays a doltish farmer...
Matt Houston (ABC, Sundays, 8 p.m. E.S.T.) is a megarich Texan who seems to have gone into the crime-busting business because he saw too much television. As played, with some finesse, by Lee Horsley, Houston looks a little like Tom Selleck, sounds a lot like James Garner and apparently borrows his wardrobe from J.R. Ewing. Houston has all sorts of technological niceties at his fingertips, from a computer to a whirlybird. At least he has the good taste to not get caught up in the futuristic excesses of Michael Knight (David Hasselhoff), who, in Knight Rider (NBC, Fridays...