Word: sided
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hands of a third party, but appears to answer none of the ethical questions which have surrounded university-industry ties since the biotechnology boom started more than a decade ago. University officials seem to hope that this new arrangement may avoid those problems by carefully separating the commercial side of the operation, which will be left to a Harvard-owned company, from the academic side...
Harvard has usually weighed in on the side of restraint toward closer relations with industry. Harvard's reluctance to be involved stems from a divisive controversy in 1980 when Harvard announced plans to invest in Professor Mark Ptashne's start-up biotechnology company. After furor erupted in the faculty and in the national press, President Bok switched course and decided to pull out of the deal...
...flip side of the optimism of the immigrants' story is the paranoia that the mass of Americans' harbor toward those who are different. As quickly as they can be stirred by the story of the son of Greek immigrants, they can be frightened when reminded that he is, after all, not named Smith, Jones or even Bush...
...potato-chip bag to "borrow" sand from the center and install a landing pit off the porch. Jackie's main co-conspirator was her older brother Al, whom she could beat at everything. "I didn't have a big brother," Al says. "I had Jackie." Through a fluttering porch-side window shade, enjoying the sounds of plotting, their father heard 14-year-old Jackie announce one evening that someday she was going to be in the Olympic Games...
...duck-technique sensation of the trials was 100-meter Back Specialist David Berkoff, a slim-to-skinny anthropology major from, of all places, Harvard. Backstrokers coil their bodies against the side of the pool before the start, then shove violently backward with their legs, hands together, streamlined, above their heads. They go underwater this way, then pop to the surface in five meters or so and begin stroking. Except Berkoff. He stays 5 ft. underwater, on his back, wriggling along with a legs-together dolphin kick, like that used by butterflyers. This is astonishing not to see. Most...