Word: patentable
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Occasionally, in an attempt to empathize, people will say, “Well, I never watch TV any more anyway. I don’t know why I even keep it around!” This is a patent lie. Sure, they say they’ve never seen Must-See TV. But they’ll jump eagerly into the debate over what the next episode of “Alias” will reveal about Sidney’s amnesia. Or they’ll feign ignorance about last night’s “The West...
...have found me wending through the Radcliffe Quad and up Garden Street. I do not live in the Quad, and have always, in the past, cast a pitying eye on the Quadlings who have insisted upon a Quad-River rivalry—feeling that the River’s patent superiority spoke for itself—but I have been studying in Hilles Library lately. This is the sort of peculiar habit you admit to with an abashed smile, like an affection for listening to ABBA records while binging on Sun Chips and Fresca. In a nostalgic...
...start. Certainly the Berlin meeting will be a cheery photo op. The Big Three could also try to break the logjam on voting weights that scuppered the constitutional talks in December, and they will likely produce small practical measures like liberalizing Europe's energy market and advancing a European patent board. Those are tiny steps for sure, but far better than marching backward - or beating each other bloody...
...unpublished studies they reviewed came from the drug companies themselves, and at least some of those had been carried out for a very specific purpose. Under FDA rules, any company that tests its medications on young people at the FDA's request wins an extra six months' worth of patent protection, whether or not the results are positive. Since these studies were done for financial gain and weren't reviewed by independent scientists, they probably shouldn't be given full weight. Making them public, as activists demand, might muddy the waters rather than help families make informed decisions...
...must always be a last resort, for any House—even for the River’s last superpower. (Harvard’s cutting-edge political scientists measure global strength in cubic yards of concrete.) Sadly, it is patent that Mather has made its declaration against Kirkland without even the briefest of diplomatic engagements. No attempt seems to have been made to involve the Undergraduate Council in the mounting problem of the gong; nor could Mather be troubled to wait for final exams to start before crying havoc. This war is an act of unacceptable spontaneity, announced and perhaps...