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...Anne B. S. Giersch, a professor at Harvard Medical School studying age-related hearing loss, has been grappling with the difficulties resulting from the limited resources...
...Giersch said she has been waiting for NIH funding for two years while the inner ears of the mice she already dissected remain unused in her freezer. Giersch just submitted another grant application last week...
...People are spending all their time writing grant applications and less time getting work done,” said Giersch, who is one of the scientists who went to D.C. “It’s not just me, it’s not just us [the 12 researchers profiled in the report], it’s the whole field...
...board members, however, predicted only good times ahead for Europe. Giersch, for one, saw a Continent divided between a majority of employed and a significant minority of jobless; between skilled workers and the unskilled; between regions that are prospering, mainly those located around the Alps, and regions whose resource-based industries are in rapid decline. Export industries have been doing well, Giersch noted, while others, like housing, have suffered. What Europe still lacks, according to Giersch, is a flexible labor force that would be willing in some cases to accept lower pay and move more easily to new jobs. Without...
WEST GERMANY. Giersch called 1985, when the economy expanded by 2.3%, a disappointing year. But growth in 1986 is expected to swell to 3%, largely on the basis of a doubling of private consumption, from 1.5% to 3%. Consumers will get the first of two planned tax cuts, and wages are expected to rise by around 4% this year. Giersch expects labor leaders to call for larger increases in 1986. Since an election is coming next year, he said, the government will not be in a mood to resist. Inflation, currently 1.8%, is expected...