Word: highflown
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That's a lot of highflown language, but it describes is relationship that is classically simple: Monsanto pays Harvard a great deal of money, more than the University is getting from any of its government or foundation grants, and gets in return the commercial rights to whatever comes out of the research, if anything. Despite all the lofty talk. Monsanto is in effect renting Harvard labs and scientists; although the Harvard researchers are free to run their own projects within certain parameters, those parameters are set by Monsanto...