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...customers include the likes of A T & T, IBM, GE, INA, Alcoa, Mead, Singer, Monsanto, Borg-Warner. Eight times a year their top powers-chairmen, presidents or vice presidents -get together for a day in Diebold's offices. In these meetings they exchange information on how their own companies are trying to anticipate and respond to the many minirevolutions in the country. Diebold preaches a message: "Don't wait for the activists to come forward. Go out and meet them at least halfway, and maybe more than that...
...technology does not always keep pace with ambition. Monsanto, after successfully experimenting with a small-scale advanced system that burned solid waste with very little oxygen to produce synthetic oil or gas, set up a recovery plant in Baltimore. Under the larger-scale operating conditions, snarls developed in the conveyor belt that fed trash into the kiln. That, among other technical problems, led Monsanto to give up, but the city of Baltimore continues to work on the plant, hoping to make it succeed. The cost of building garbage-processing plants is high too; Raytheon is spending $50 million...
...biomedical, computer and chemical research. The Environmental Protection Agency's air-pollution study center, which investigates such things as the reaction of blood cells to gases, is in the park. The Chemical Industry Institute of Toxicology is developing new methods for testing the safety of drugs and chemicals. Monsanto is testing synthetic fibers and nonwoven fabrics, while IBM-the biggest employer, with 3,500 workers-is checking out new computer systems and programs...
...Monsanto award is now the school's largest private grant, she added...
Representatives from Harvard and Monsanto hear the five-man committee's deliberations, but no one from either group is actually on the committee, Wander says...