Word: selling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...industry's influence on higher education grows, universities can only become corrupted. Knowledge that universities can draw on will be diminished, faculty will be more willing to sell anything, and the academic institutions' independence will be handicapped. Harvard has a reputation among other universities for having the most thoughtful research policy. One hopes the University will put its thoughts to good use by carefully regulating the relationship between professors and business...
Gephardt's dire economic warnings seem ill suited for booming New Hampshire. But the Missouri Congressman insists that he does not need a depressed farm economy to sell his brand of downbeat realism. "Even in New Hampshire," he argued in a TIME interview, "there's the feeling that people are not getting ahead economically; they can't buy the house; they can't afford the education. It's more jobs, more work, less income, more debt." In any case, Gephardt does not have the luxury of tailoring his appeal to New England voters. Even though an oil-import...
...play both compact and laser discs. These newly available combis will likely heat up the laser market even further. In Japan, where the laser business is now valued at $1.5 billion, the major electronics companies are gearing up for a grand-scale manufacturing push, and Sony will start to sell its laser-disc player in the U.S. this spring...
...Michael Dukakis: Massachusetts. Can a Northeast liberal sell in Birmingham, Alabama? Like Gephardt, he too has great momentum building for Super Tuesday. And unlike Gephardt he has a strong financial base. But, in the next 19 days he must capitalize on his standing in the polls. Strong showings--if not victories--in next week's Minnesota, South Dakota, and South Carolina primaries are essential...
Harvard officials said they chose to buy and immediately sell the building because their option to do so expires at the end of the year. They could not legally own and rent the building in any case because the property lies outside the "red line," a perimeter that formally limits University growth...