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Last month's DEQE decision gave Harvard the go-ahead to fire up MATEP's six diesel engines, which have been almost completely idle since their installation...
After six months of negotiating, the MacDonalds at Porter Square got the go-ahead to build largely because of the existence of a parking lot at the location and a pledge to collect litter around the store...
...species, or xenografts. He performed more than 150 transplants in sheep, goats and baboons, many of them between species. Last December, after what Bailey called "months of agonizing," the Loma Linda institutional review board gave him preliminary approval to implant a baboon heart in a human infant. The final go-ahead came just two days before Baby Fae's surgery. "There is evidence that the chimpanzee, orangutan or gorilla may be a better donor," Bailey noted last week, "but they are either an endangered species or don't procreate well in captivity...
...Washington Post. (Her most memorable distinction was being officially banned from Tricia Nixon's wedding.) While acting as a features reporter and a drama critic, she asked her editor one day in 1978 if she could try a column on etiquette; she got a very skeptical go-ahead. "Editors all thought etiquette was dead," says Martin. "Even the word was a joke. I thought I was just writing for a bunch of old cranks like myself, but then I started getting floods of mail from young people. These were the people who were supposed to think etiquette was stupid...
...million. Rubbia's notions, however, had one staunch supporter: Simon van der Meer, a senior engineer at CERN. Van der Meer designed a device critical to the taming of the colliding beams in Rubbia's experiment. In 1979 CERN gave Rubbia and Van der Meer a go-ahead for their project, and by 1983 the three particles had been found...