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...effects of the Washington exodus of 1992 and 1993 have almost disappeared, but we must wonder how permanent this situation will be. If Clinton is re-elected in 1996, might another drove of professors not cake the trip south? For the time being, at least, Harvard can reap the benefits of Nye and Ellwood's return...
...them. According to Common Cause, Andreas, his wife and ADM have given a total of $1.4 million in so-called soft, or unrestricted, funds to the Republican Party since 1991, as well as $759,000 to the Democrats. In return for his largese, Andreas has often seemed to reap what he has sown. For example, ADM profits handsomely from federal programs that raise U.S. sugar prices above the world level, at an estimated cost to consumers of $1.4 billion a year. That creates a market for cheaper high-fructose corn syrup, which has all but replaced sugar as an ingredient...
That would give Gerstner an ideal weapon for challenging industry giant Microsoft, which dominates most other parts of the desktop software business. Not only would IBM reap increasing revenues from sales of Notes, but other software companies could use it as a "platform" on which to build their own programs and thereby turn it into a global standard. "In this industry he who is first garners an enormous amount of benefit," Gerstner says. But Microsoft chairman Bill Gates, who plans to roll out a groupware program called Exchange later this year, dismissed the IBM-Lotus alliance. "I just...
...there is evidence that MATEP made sense atthe time it was built: rather than construction ahalf dozen plants, the University decided to buildone and reap the benefits of the economics ofscale...
...strident and divisive police policy undertaken the previous fall [by the Nixon administration] had begun to reap a bitter crop," the authors write...