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With so much research already going on, the Supreme Court's decision mainly gives formal sanction to what had been happening for some time, a classic example of the law's lagging behind technology. Millions of dollars have been invested without patent protection. Says Bernard Talbot, special assistant to the director of the National Institutes of Health: "Recombinant DNA work is going on in numerous labs. This would have gone on whatever the court decided." Chief Justice Burger himself acknowledged that a patent law "will not deter the scientific mind from probing into the unknown any more than...
Officials of Local 26, which represents Harvard's dining hall workers, did not prepare or sanction the leaflet, Powers' letter says...
Union officials did not sanction the letter's distribution, Fred Walden, vice president of Local 26, said yesterday...
Some Washington policy planners have toyed with the idea of encouraging separatism, seeing the breakup of Iran as a kind of ultimate sanction against Khomeini. But the hazards of doing this far outweigh the advantages; true civil war in Iran would be the quickest way of destroying whatever stability remains in the Middle East. The lands of the Azerbaijanis stretch into Turkey and the Soviet Union, those of the Kurds into Turkey and Iraq, those of the Baluchis
...said it never had direct U.S. sanction for its efforts. Khalaf also denied that the PLO was using the Tehran crisis as a way of winning U.S. recognition...