Word: projects
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...thus hard for a university to regulate. A vast network of ties exists, mostly based on personal relationships. It goes something like this: a corporate executive, looking for advice, hiring a professor as a consultant to lend expertise; the professor later convinces the executive to fund his research project, arguing that its results will eventually help the company; and once this relationship is established, the company then hires graduate students and even professors to conduct research in its labs. A $10 million research grant from Monsanto to Harvard Medical School Professor Bert Vallee was consummated in this way--although...
However this appears to be nothing more than a meager attempt to justify some very disturbing activities. There was no evidence available at the FBI project's beginning that even hinted at actual terrorist activity, let alone any violation of federal law. Indeed, the investigation proved there was none. Nevertheless, the investigations both continued and expanded...
...ourselves as doers of good deeds and this was a good deed to do," said Lampoon President Jonathan D. Fernandez '89, of the oft-unpublished humor magazine's involvement with the project...
Members of the Statistics Department, who have been working on this project for more than a year, propose selecting population segments of 300,000 homes in various regions across the country and then intensively studying their group dynamics after a normal U.S. census is taken by mail, said Rubin, who has been at Harvard for four years. The scientists, who include Rubin, Assistant Professor of Statistics Hal Stern and four graduate students, then use the results from these segmented studies to adjust the census' total population count...
Currently, the U.S. holds a census every 10 years in which most of the people-counting is done by mail, according to Tom Belian, a graduate student working with Rubin on the project. Every American household receives a census form, which reports the number of people living at their home. "It's a huge undertaking, costing over $1 billion," Belian said. The Census Bureau has never before adjusted its population data...