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...certainly won't be satisfied until we reach a point where we're right on par," he said...
Clinton, in contrast, has embraced the idea of a national industrial policy, making it a cornerstone of his plan to reinvigorate the economy. Last November he created the National Science Technology Council, a Cabinet-level body on a par with the National Security Council and the National Economic Council and composed of the secretaries and directors of all the research-oriented departments and agencies in the government. Preliminary meetings of the council's nine subcommittees have been under way for the past three weeks, and the President is scheduled to chair the first formal meeting next month...
...Davis: No. Theoretically you always go into play when you do a transaction. That's par for the course. But we did not see it coming, in spite of what everybody else thinks we saw. Nobody perceived, including our bankers -- but I'm not going to blame this on bankers -- that there was another valid bid out there that could match the power of the two companies coming together...
Harvard averages 65.5 points per game but failed to reach par by over 20 points...
Though this may seem like support for a more androgynous environment, the students' logic led to precisely the opposite conclusion. Most panelists think that Harvard has placed women on a par with men, and any further segregation simply obstructs equality...