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...could be mistaken for a school department and wants it changed. The suit was prompted by the company's recent name change from "Harvard Apparatus" in anticipation of going public. The action is the latest in Harvard's wide-ranging campaign to crack down on companies who seek to profit from seeming to be associated with the University. While the University's zeal in protecting its trademark is understandable in most cases, this latest lawsuit crosses the line from prosecuting malicious pirates to punishing legitimate companies...
...many parts of the company, particularly among the white-collar managers who by now know their days are numbered. Ghosn must further reduce the number of Nissan's suppliers and cut purchasing costs an additional 10% by next year. A global economic slowdown could erase an awful lot of profit in the meantime and total Ghosn effort...
...quietly taking shape that proposes to do that on a grand scale, as companies with names like Biogen, Genzyme, Genetics Institute and Millennium Pharmaceuticals--Zeus' home--prepare to change forever the way doctors fight disease. They're not alone: spurred by the prospect of scientific glory and enormous profit, big pharmaceutical firms and university and government labs have been joined by scores of new companies, not just in Cambridge but in Montgomery County, Md., Silicon Valley and other high-tech hot spots around the nation. It's a virtual gold rush to mine the mountain of potentially valuable data...
...stem cells--could become a kind of cash crop, U.S. scientists have been largely shut out of this promising field. New nih guidelines, however, have reversed the earlier ban and now allow federally funded researchers to use embryonic stem cells as long as they are not sold for profit and come from such sources as embryos discarded from in vitro fertility treatments...
...emerged in 1997, a few years after another radical environmental group, Earth First!, renounced the use of violence. Since then, ELF members and sympathizers have waged a stealth war against "those who profit from the destruction of the natural environment." The attacks include a $12 million fire at a ski resort in Vail, Colo.; a $500,000 fire at a timber-company headquarters in Medford, Ore.; and another that destroyed a partly built home in Bloomington, Ind., that the ELF said was part of a development that threatened the local water supply...