Word: grosse
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...testimony that they were merely "reaching out" to grieving friends in more than a dozen phone calls with the First Lady and White House aides shortly after they searched Foster's office. "D'Amato is trying to prove a conspiracy that will be very difficult to prove," Martin L. Gross, author of The Great Whitewater Fiasco: An American Tale of Money, Power and Politics, told TIME Daily. "It seems clear that there was a series of phone calls between Williams, Thomases and White House counsel Bernard Nussbaum the morning after Foster's death. And it's also clear that...
...Even if [the professor] has some kind of an intellectual vested interest in a company and also academia, I think it's very difficult to separate responsibilities and commitments to both sides," Gross says...
...Gross says he is concerned about the effect of the relationships on students...
...think that when a senior faculty member is seriously involved with a commercial venture, it is very difficult not to influence the thinking of the young people in their immediate area of responsibility, such as students and post-doctoral fellows," Gross says...
...research funds, these young people see the writing on the wall and the behavior of their mentors and they are much more likely to think of more patentable experiments and much less likely to take risks in their research, which is what scientific research is all about," Gross says...