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...interest in journalism as freshman-year roommates, won first place in the News Story of the Year category for “A New Deal on Lifesaving Drugs,” part of a three-part series exploring how Harvard licenses its scientific discoveries to companies in the private sector...
Romney is “someone who is very much respected, particularly in the issue of competitiveness. He’s the only actual candidate who’s worked in the private sector, in the real economy,” Porter said...
...necessary “to bring the private sector and NGO’s into the international policy making process... [and to] disaggregate and redistribute sovereignty at the international level,” Kerim said...
That will require massive investment in the energy sector - and the dirty secret is that for all our talk about the importance of new, clean technology, governments around the world have underinvested in energy. The report's authors point out that global public investment in energy research and development was just $9 billion in 2005 - about a billion less than the U.S. is currently spending in Iraq per month. That has to be doubled, at least. "We need money on the magnitude of what the U.S. invested in the Apollo program," said Steven Chu, another co-chair and the director...
...reforms the transport unions are opposing includes extending the time required to have worked on a job to qualify for a full pension from 37.5 years to 40. That would largely bring public sector pension requisites into line with those governing the private sector. Unions, however, note that even the accords signed in 2003 are up for review next spring, and many expect the private sector time requirements will lengthen further...