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...what will happen to the testing industry once the exams are disclosed. "Our basic thesis is that since the tests play such an important role in determining what colleges, professional schools, and professions people end up in, we all have a right to know what the exams mean," Ed Hanley, a Nader employee who lobbied for the truth-in-testing bill in Albany last year, says. Obviously, though, the right-to-know issue wouldn't be vital unless there was some hint the tests weren't worthwhile. "This will enable us to resolve once and for all the debate over...
...John Hanley, chairman of Monsanto Co., remembers his moment of conversion. Last March, at a Citibank board meeting in Manhattan, he heard a Georgetown University political analyst expound on America's deteriorating position in the world. As Hanley recalls, "I went home to St. Louis and sat down alone in my office and listed all the candidates from both parties who could conceivably run. Never mind if we could elect him, but who would have the best chance of changing the situation? It was clear as a bell to me that it was John Connally. I sent...
...storm may be brewing. Reflected a presidential aide: "Forbearance doesn't elicit a more cooperative Congress." Still smarting from the House vote on gas rationing, Carter dashed off sharp notes to Congressmen. To New York Democrat James Hanley, who had explained his vote in a letter described by a White House official as "snotty and insulting," the President answered, "What should I do, put my head in the sand, ignore the problems, or look for a scapegoat...
...Monsanto's Harvard connection, Hanley says, "A lot of people in both education and business are watching this project. Exxon, for example, is looking at it. They have some fledgling arrangements with M.I.T., and I gather that they want more. There isn't a month that goes by that some paper shuffler like me doesn't inquire, 'How're you coming along?' David Rockefeller was in my office a few weeks ago and asked if we could make the same kind of deal with Rockefeller University...
Harvard and Monsanto are aiming at a tough scientific target, but Hanley figures that it is equally significant that they are demonstrating a means for working together to increase the effectiveness of the research under way in U.S. universities. Compared with cash-short colleges, companies have far larger resources to invest in basic research, and they are much more expert in managing that research, directing it to the market and recruiting scientists. "The transferral of technology from the university to the marketplace is a very flawed mechanism in this country," says Hanley. "It doesn't work worth a damn...