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Both the Harvard and B.U. programs offer volunteers six-month stays overseas. Traditionally, the Peace Corps requires two-year stays, because volunteers need at least six months to learn a language and culture, according to Flanigan...
Imagine dealing with nut cases and having to get your work done too. Suppose your boss has given you 20 people (19, not counting the lunatic), a $750,000 budget and a six-month deadline on a project that will determine whether the company survives...
...main goal of the first six-month trial will be to assess the vaccine's safety. If all goes well, scientists will eventually try to determine its efficacy in preventing infection by administering it to large groups of people at high risk of developing AIDS. The answer is hardly around the corner. Says Fauci: "It will be a considerable time, probably the mid-1990s, before any vaccine, including this one, will be ready for general...
...Attorney Rudolph Giuliani turned down the job. So did Nicholas Brady, chief executive of the Dillon, Read brokerage house. It began to seem as if the chairmanship of the Securities and Exchange Commission would go begging until David Sturtevant Ruder, 58, a Northwestern University law professor, ended a six-month White House search by accepting the $82,500-a-year position last week. Ruder has taught courses in SEC law and written extensively on securities, but some skeptics in Congress wonder if he is the "tough cop" needed to continue the crackdown on Wall Street's insider-trading scandal...
...basic problems stemmed from a six-month, $162 million overhaul that gave the QE2 modern diesel engines and revamped its accommodations. An official of the Cunard Line, which owns the 18-year-old ocean liner, said it was assumed that the renovated ship would suffer "teething problems." But their unexpected magnitude will take a $1 million bite out of Cunard's revenues in partial refunds offered to customers...