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...most sobering aspect of rising joblessness in California is that it is not the by-product of a downturn in one business sector. Layoffs have come from industries as diverse as technology, hospitality, finance, construction, and retail. Put another way, the firestorm has not spared anything...
...dealing with design and development. Nelson said the report will be made available to the Harvard community in about two weeks. She added that she expects construction and renovation, the third and final phase of House renewal, to begin no earlier than 2012. Nelson said the report is the product of a year-long analysis of House life and features an in-depth examination of residential accommodations and academic and social spaces. It also scrutinizes the broader mission of House life. Central to the report is the visualization of what an ideal House should be, regardless of location or cost...
...salesman for himself and his vision of the American dream, he was also a master peddler of many products, whose makers were as loyal to Harvey as his listeners were. A skit from the 1984-85 season of Saturday Night Live had Harvey (played by Rich Hall) compulsively peppering his news items with sponsor names. The man remained unapologetic. "Some days," he told Larry King in 1988, "the best news in the broadcast is the commercial. You can keep your natural teeth all your natural life! There is a glove that doesn't wear out! There is a car battery...
...spite of their important role in producing new drugs, universities have taken a back seat to pharmaceutical companies in determining the policy agenda for access to medicines. Patentable technologies created in universities are typically licensed to pharmaceutical companies to facilitate the development of useful, marketable end products. In addition to providing product development, these partnerships also frequently guarantee that the institution and the researcher will share in the profits through royalties. Yet, too often, the agreements used to create these partnerships contain no provisions preserving the rights of universities to grant access to the finished products. This means that...
...with their first estimate of how fast the economy shrank in the fourth quarter, economists and investors were surprised that it was at a mere 3.8% annual rate. Now, after some of the updates and revisions that are a standard part of the process of estimating gross domestic product (GDP), the number is a far more dramatic...