Word: processes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...project made public last week, Harvard plans to solicit approximately $30 million worth of investments from outside corporations for a limited partnership called Medical Science Partners. This company will then invest in the process of making laboratory discoveries into marketable products...
...They assured me that there was no possibility that the appointment process would be affected in any way by the fund," he said. "If it ever became a tenure issue I'd abolish...
Imagine the political disaster if someone had the courage to say, "This country is in an inevitable decline as a political and economic power. Neither I nor my opponent can stop the process, but I will acknowledge it and attempt to cope." Quicker than you can say "malaise," that candidate would drop twenty points in the polls...
...which, sober analysts contend, has trivialized the political process. A debatable proposition, but never mind; let's get trivial. Candidates who shape their campaigns for TV deserve to be judged, for a few moments anyway, by TV standards. Some themes that have emerged on the road to the November sweeps...
...process begins with the statistical assessment of the nation's second- and third-graders, who are measured, weighed, timed and questioned. The resulting data is churned through a computer at the German College of Physical Culture in Leipzig, which determines whether a child might have a special aptitude for a certain sport. Says Renate Vogel, a former world champion G.D.R. swimmer and now deputy coach of the West German women's Olympic team: "No one with talent falls through the sieve...