Word: partiality
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...decision, which allows the University to accept stock in a fledgling firm as partial compensation for the right to a Harvard-owned patent, was made by the University's highest governing board without the consultation of the committee--the very body charged with investiating this issue...
Late last winter, Carnesale said, the University needed to make a decision on whether to accept equity as partial consideration for licenses...
Additionally, the Fogg isn't controlled by a board of trustees who have partial ownership and therefore influence over what is displayed. Harvard's curators and director answer only to the President of Harvard University and a board of academic overseers who are generally delighted to see the curators take risks...
...simply prove that he was the man who could make it happen; he would then capitalize on the prominence he hoped it would confer. For most of those who attended, however, the main point was comradeship, pride and rededication to a few core values. The march was also a partial antidote to what may be a creeping sense of despair among African Americans. In a TIME/CNN poll conducted last week, 56% of blacks questioned did not think discrimination against them would ever diminish. Only 27% of whites felt that way. While 65% of whites thought that race relations would eventually...
...purchase $6 billion worth of jetliners from the two leading U.S. aircraft manufacturers, Boeing and McDonnell Douglas. The White House says the agreement will create 100,000 jobs, mostly in Washington state and California. "Although this deal is not quite a quid pro quo, it can be considered a partial payback for our role in keeping Saddam Hussein out of Saudi Arabia's backyard during the Persian Gulf War," says defense correspondent Mark Thompson. "The Saudis would look pretty bad if they turned to Europe's Airbus to build the planes after what the U.S. did for them...