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...lower court decision, allowing the Department of Education to carry out the policy until the justices can rule on its constitutionality later this year. The ruling gave the Department of Education only three days to implement a policy due to go into effect July 1. The Department decided to plough ahead and enact the legislation as planned, granting first one-, then two-month extensions on the July deadline...
Other genetic-engineering companies have found large established firms to bankroll their research efforts rather than going to the stock market for capital. Berkeley-based Cetus, the oldest and largest of the firms, raised money by selling a microorganism it developed for penicillin production to Schering-Plough, a drug and cosmetic company. It also obtained backing from National Distillers & Chemical Corp. for a method to speed the manufacture of ethanol, which can be used with gasoline to make gasohol...
Biogen S.A., which is based in Geneva, Switzerland, was the first firm to develop bacterial interferon. Founded in 1978, it is operated by a multinational board of directors and scientists. Schering-Plough last year invested $8 million in Biogen in return for exclusive worldwide manufacturing and sales rights to three of its products. Biogen has also found a second way to make interferon and is working on chemicals to cure foot-and-mouth disease, hepatitis and malaria...
...failing to address the women in the hall as well as the men. "I am sure that on plantation or town or colony was settled except by the aid of women," Eliot told the governor. Minutes later, though, Eliot added, "The men have to hunt and fish and plough and dig and carry wood and water, but the women must cook and wash and sew and bear and bring up the children...
...minicourse. If you think you just had a bad day, don't sweat and don't bother signing up. If you've taken the Spanish, French or German placement test--Remember those? Remember the language requirement? --earlier in the day, you might merely be tired by the time you plough through the soporific reading...