Word: projects
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...diplomatic circumlocutions and the technical jargon of weaponry - into a lucid history of SALT. But Christmas came late, and history had to wait. Only last week, when Secretary of State Cyrus Vance and Soviet Ambassador Anatoli Dobrynin reached a general agreement on the proposed treaty, could Talbott complete his project. Talbott's narrative, part of this week's 15-page Special Report on SALT, is accompanied by Associate Editor Burton Pines' appraisal of the terms of the treaty and an assessment of the great Senate debate ahead...
Such corporate actions only exacerbate the current tremendous imbalance between the political resources of business interests and those of consumer and citizen activists. According to Harvey Shulman, former executive director of Media Access Project, a public interest law firm in Washington...
...promising pilot, Hanley's firm has committed $23 million to a joint project with the Harvard Medical School to find new means of combatting cancer. For four years, at both Boston and Monsanto's campus-like home in suburban St. Louis, scientists from the college and the company have been unwinding the secrets of "molecular messengers," which control the growth of tumors. Besides money, Monsanto, like many another firm, has quite a bit of technical expertise to offer. Says Hanley: "We can, in fact, bring something to the party...
...Monsanto's Harvard connection, Hanley says, "A lot of people in both education and business are watching this project. Exxon, for example, is looking at it. They have some fledgling arrangements with M.I.T., and I gather that they want more. There isn't a month that goes by that some paper shuffler like me doesn't inquire, 'How're you coming along?' David Rockefeller was in my office a few weeks ago and asked if we could make the same kind of deal with Rockefeller University...
...Alceste and Célimène, François Beaulieu and Béatrice Agenin project modern, realistic feeling at the expense of classical eloquence. During his tirades against mankind, Beaulieu runs through the Alexandrines and casts caesuras to the winds. But he builds sympathy by the low-key, unstylized way he plays the love scenes. Agenin, too, is better at intimacy than poetic elegance. She is a wonder, though, at dispensing petits fours and nasty court gossip to a fine pair of dandies whose wigs make them resemble Bert Lahr playing the Cowardly Lion. When she leans back...