Word: patentable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...patent diplomatic puffery attending it, the great U.S.-Soviet space show commanded considerable attention round the world. Interest and approval were probably greatest in the Soviet Union, where Moscow, in a sharp reversal of past practices, gave the mission prolonged press buildup and provided extensive live coverage in an apparent effort to dramatize detente to the Soviet man in the street (see box next page). Outside the U.S. and the Soviet Union, admiration of the Apollo-Soyuz flight was sometimes mixed with doubts about its diplomatic implications. Echoing a concern often heard in France, as well as in some Third...
Gourley later sorted his haul and deduced that Henry or Nancy or both 1) smoke Marlboros, 2) use patent medicines, and 3) sometimes throw away the New York Times unopened. He is saving other weighty conclusions for a treatise the Enquirer is doing this week. Says Gourley, "There are things in Kissinger's trash that I think he would rather people didn't know about...
...noble intentions, though, the old policy never produced much. Harvard professors are far more interested in research than in seeing the products of that research widely produced and distributed. And similarly, corporations are unwilling to distribute an invention without the financial protection a patent provides...
Harvard is handling the whole relationship with kid gloves. A new University Committee on patent policy has issued a report that supercedes the Corporation's old patent policy, temporarily suspended so that the Monsanto deal could go through...
Unfortunately most of the voices raised so far against wholesale acceptance have been ill-informed, immoral or racist. Racism is patent in the charges that Vietnamese refugees will carry disease. "Spread communism," and possibly flood the job market with cheap labor. It would be better to accept all the refugees than to how to these voices echoing the most disreputable chapters of our history. If we do screen Vietnamese refugees and reject asylum for a few of them, it must be clear that America is not obeying the voice of primitive racism, but making a belated attempt to cease...