Word: patent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...NEVER interned. Armed with a Crimson Ph.D., $600 and an idea for storing computer memory, he started Wang Laboratories. But the road to building a multibillion-dollar corporation was fraught with obstacles, not the least of which were the legal battles with IBM over the patent on his idea...
Reagan's political logic is all too patent. Spending money to help victims reveals that drug abuse is a terrible disease. Spending it to catch pushers, on the other hand, shows that there is an enemy to be conquered...
...HASN'T BEEN AN EASY YEAR for Harvard's administrators. From the John F. Kennedy School of Government to Massachusetts Hall to 17 Quincy St., some of the University's highest officials have found their time occupied by angry students, faculty and alumni. Patent administrative blunders and muddled thinking have caused some of the worst behavior by Harvard's leaders, rocked the University with controversy and exposed a severe governance problem at our institution...
...should be tested and who should not be?" Argues Duke Law Professor Weistart: "Colleges could never get away with testing the entire student body. But because there is no single party representing student athletes, the N.C.A.A. can ride roughshod over their civil liberties. It's a patent invasion of privacy...
Between the two sections of the ship, the Woods Hole scientists found a large debris field littered with artifacts: a copper kettle polished by sand particles in the deep-sea currents; three of the ship's safes; a porcelain doll's head; a patent-leather shoe. Most of the ship's woodwork had been devoured by marine creatures. Amid the debris were at least four of the Titanic's huge boilers; an unbroken porcelain coffee cup rested on one of them. Says Ballard: "It must have fluttered down like a leaf and settled on the boiler, which had come crashing...