Word: patent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cafe located less than 100 yds. from Caransa's office. Then, early the following morning, two of the kidnapers drove Caransa into central Amsterdam and shoved him out of the car. Shivering in the rain, with electrical-wire manacles dangling from his arms and legs, and wearing one patent-leather shoe, the kidnap victim snouted: "I am Caransa, help me, help me!" After hailing a cab, Caransa made his way to police headquarters...
...Stetton adds that the bill did not receive much support in the Senate and added he was glad to see it dropped. The bill is currently being revised to merely withdraw federal funding from any research projects which fail to meet the NIH guidelines and to deny patent rights to any discovery which might be performed under illegal conditions. If passed, the bill will offer the option of keeping scientists honest, but will lack any moralistic or political overtones...
...look at people today. They do not got to expensive French restaurants to ward off starvation. Movie stars do not build huge mansions merely to escape the cold. Nor does the businessman wear patent leather shoes to protect his feet from the hot pavement...
...item in "the repertoire of the campaign to diseredit" him as a serious researcher. He asserts that "the continued suppression of the use of cannabis in medicine is a scandal of gigantic proportions," and he affixes the blame for this state of affairs on large manufacturers of patent medicines and various clandestine intelligence agencies which have, he claims, sought to impede his research...
...here?" the man continues, gesturing towards the street. Taxi-cabs swish by, lots of them, all with their VACANT signs turned off. And it doesn't look so good to you. But their headlights shimmer in the rain and are kind of pretty and the sidewalks look like patent leather with all the garbage washed off for once...maybe if you weren't sated all the time with Chopin and ivy-covered brick and first editions of Shelley you might get something out of this back street, might see beyond being nervous about what or who was in those shadows...