Word: researchers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...University last week proposed a complex multi-million dollar fund for commercializing its professors' discoveries in what amounts to an attempt to build a better mousetrap. Under several arrangements, Harvard is trying raise $35 million to organize companies that would develop faculty research, with the University receiving 10 percent of the profits...
...expected to bring about more change more quickly than any other climatic event in the earth's history. Scientists warn that the changes cannot be stopped, though they can be slowed. But the time is short. Says Robert Dickinson, a senior scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research: "We don't have 100 years. We have ten or 20 at most...
...subtler factors also figure in. First, as a more centralized society, the Soviet Union seems to be better set up to disseminate the latest sports research and take advantage of the results nationwide. Second, Soviet schools place great emphasis on physical fitness, whereas U.S. physicians generally oppose intensive fitness programs for the very young...
...book, in the direction of heterosexual detente. The ex-husband, now remarried, is sketched as a decent fellow. Polly's closest friend, a cozy, catlike lesbian named Jeanne, shows herself, in the book's best characterization, to be malicious and totally self-absorbed. Most important, Polly's research, which she and her friends assume will prove that Painter Jones was abused and underrated by the men in her life, goes awkwardly sour. It turns out that Jones was indeed a genius but that she was far harder on men than they were...
...CHIEF OF RESEARCH: Betty Satterwhite Sutter...