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Gilbert shared the 1980 Nobel Prize in chemistry for discovering a rapid method to decode base sequenced in DNA and then applying in to produce materials like interferon and insulin. He also served' as chair of Biogen, a biotechnology firm based in both Geneva and Cambridge...
That's the way the credit crunch has brought rapid growth to many nonbank lenders. "There is plenty of demand for financing from small companies," says Access Capital president Miles Stuchin. "It's just that the banks are turning them down." Stuchin set up a finance company in 1986 that Inc. magazine last year placed in the top 20% of the 500 fastest-growing companies...
...announcement came at the end of a tension-filled day in the fitful talks among 26 parties that began in December 1991. While dissenters will be able to raise the issue again, a majority nonetheless provisionally set the poll date to bolster the hopes of blacks impatient for more rapid change. Afterward, African National Congress Secretary-General Cyril Ramaphosa rushed to a previously scheduled gala dinner to receive a Man of the Year award jointly with government negotiator Roelf Meyer. To the cheers of 400 guests, who represented all the country's races, Ramaphosa declared, "We now stand...
...answer to Powell's concern that an abrupt shift will weaken the military, opponents answer that the military has undergone rapid shifts in the past, such as when it was integrated in 1948, an action which made the rise of Colin L. Powell possible...
...rapid shift of much of the University's power into the hands of a new guard came at a turbulent time for Harvard in the midst of preparations for a $2 billion capital campaign that would dwarf any previous campaign in the history of higher education...