Word: relationship
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...problem with eradicating these conflicts of ultimate interests is that business-professor links are informal, and 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...
...celebration of the ethos of New York City. For in the end, Tom returns to the South, this time content with himself, and conscious of the "demonology" of his youth. While by no means an autobiographical work, one gets the sense that Conroy is exploring his own relationship with the South. It is our good fortune that he has chosen...
Meanwhile, the once desperate people in the Baby M case are likely to find themselves tied together for some time by the common bond of the child they all claim. Whitehead-Gould declared herself "delighted to know my relationship with my daughter will continue for the rest of our lives." That prospect left the Sterns considerably less than delighted. They plan to try to block or limit the visits...
Since the president is already granted a general veto power by the Constitution, the item veto is unnecessary. With the authority he already has, a shrewd president can expose legislative big spenders and cut out the fat on spending bills--without completely realigning the relationship between the executive and legislative branches...
Irish Prime Minister Charles Haughey warned of "serious implications" for security cooperation, which he said "can only be conducted on a basis of < mutual trust." Worried by the souring relationship, Britain agreed to an Irish request for an emergency meeting this week...