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...projected to be evenly split between domestic and foreign sales, a feat that may not prove feasible for other business units, which would then be more likely to be sold off. "Mexico is a country in transition, and much of that change has been forced by NAFTA," says Robert Bryant, Saltillo's executive vice president of corporate strategy and business development. "In a protected economy, conglomerates made a lot of sense because there were synergies across business units. Well, in a worldwide economy where you have to be globally competitive in each of your business units, those domestic synergies aren...
...first exposure to “tech transfer,” the process of converting research findings into marketable products, came at MIT, where he worked in the lab of chemical and biomedical engineer Robert S. Langer, who himself holds more than 500 issued and pending patents. There, Edwards found that tech transfer could give inventors greater control over how their discoveries affect people...
...bottles than in any previous month, and Harvard earned top honors for its paper-recycling efforts in a competition among more than 90 colleges and universities nationwide. Last month, Harvard recovered a record 38.64 tons of bottles and cans, the University’s supervisor of waste management, Robert M. Gogan, said yesterday. The Environmental Protection Agency last month also ranked Harvard as the top paper recycler in the agency’s Recyclemania competition, which includes 93 schools in 33 states, according to Recyclemania’s Web site. Harvard recycled 36.41 pounds of paper per person...
...christening of the aircraft carrier named after the former President. They discussed the need for a change to a more pragmatic approach. The cadre included Scowcroft, Baker, Powell and Lawrence Eagleburger (now in Baker's study group) as well as their soft-spoken and clear-minded longtime colleague Robert Gates, who has now been tapped to be Defense Secretary. In addition, the intellectual godfather of contemporary realists, Henry Kissinger, who was the whipping boy of the original neocons during the Ford Administration, has also been weighing in with his emphasis on an unsentimental calculation of America's strategic interests...
...tension between the realist and idealist approach has long split the Republican Party between traditional conservatives and neocons. That will play itself out in the campaign of John McCain. On one shoulder, he has his close friends from the realist camp, such as Kissinger, Powell and Robert Zoellick. Perched on the other shoulder are more crusading neocons and "national greatness" theorists led by William Kristol, whose father Irving helped provide the intellectual underpinnings for a morality-based foreign policy a generation...