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...recent research agreement between Harvard Medical School and the Prudential Insurance Company may break new ground in the study of managed health care, but the pact also raises questions about the mixing of business and research...
Woolsey is in charge of something close to its reinvention. The communist menace has been replaced by more amorphous ones from terrorists and the spread of weapons of mass destruction. The Warsaw Pact has gone, but the U.S. is still the declared enemy of hostile rogue states from northern Asia to the Middle East. Woolsey must try to bring the familiar intelligence tools, from satellites to spies, into this world of new threats. "There are ways," he said in an interview with TIME, "in which the Soviet Union was easier to keep track of than Iraq, Iran, North Korea, Libya...
...French government has ominously decided to support the supercilious intellectuals in their pursuit of cultural purity. Recently, in a bureaucratic effort to save their culture, French leaders won a "cultural exemption" to keep foreign films and books out of the GATT global trade liberalization pact...
Taylor has held her current post since 1978.Unlike Marvin who is a senior lecturer as well aschoral director working under a five-yearrenewable contract, Taylor has a one-yearrenewable pact...
...insanity," said a senior Administration official. "That is, doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result." The meeting was the first of the biannual summits required under the trade agreement signed in Tokyo last summer by Clinton and former Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa. The pact aimed at trimming Japan's trade surplus with the U.S., which has jumped to a near record $60 billion. Last summer's agreement called for "objective criteria" for measuring progress, and the sticking point ever since has been each side's differing notion of what objective criteria...