Word: specializations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...House Judiciary Committee is expected to pass legislation today that would give university researchers and small farmers special exemptions from patent laws regulating genetically-altered animals...
...meantime, Leo A. Corbie, who has heldthe job of acting president for the past yearsince his predecessor stepped down for personalreasons, will remain in office. CUNY had hoped toreplace Corbie as of September 1, enabling him toreturn to his duties as vice chancellor forstudent affairs and special programs...
Invoking "unity" like a mantra, the Democrats rallied around their standardbearer. Dukakis and his team managed to keep the party's myriad special-interest groups content, yet not too well fed. As a media spectacle, the convention's only failing was so unusual for Democrats that they reveled in it: the floor show was rather dull and undramatic. The high points were the rousing speeches: Keynoter Ann Richards of Texas ridiculing George Bush for going after a "job he can't get appointed to"; Ted Kennedy cataloging the sins of the Reagan years; Jackson's resounding evocation of the personal...
...SPECIAL PROJECTS EDITOR: Donald Morrison...
...world's most famous prisoner celebrated his 70th birthday last week in Pollsmoor Prison, outside Cape Town. Isolated from the other inmates, Nelson Mandela refused the government's offer of a special six-hour birthday visit from his family as a way of protesting the plight of thousands of black activists jailed in South Africa. Meanwhile, Pretoria ordered roadblocks around the prison and clamped down on tributes to Mandela, including outdoor meetings, a private tea party and a concert at the University of Cape Town, which ended with the arrival of riot police in gas masks...