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...staffer for the House Subcommittee on Science and Technology adds other ways Harvard can exert pressure for more research support. Members of prominent universities are often on the governing boards of funding organizations like the National Science Foundation, and so can urge a foundation to grant as much money as possible for research, he says. In addition, University faculty members are on disciplinary advisory commissions that oversee applications for grants falling within their disciplines. "Practically any full professor at the Medical School and the Biology Department has served," Dr. Bernard C. Davis, Lehman Professor of Bacterial Physiology...
Harvard also uses the "old boy" network, the staffer adds. Because of the huge number of former Harvard students and faculty members in federal agencies and on Capitol Hill, Harvard can often find a sympathetic...
Burke Simmerman, a staffer on Stagger's committee, said last week he believes a combination of administrative and House pressure will force Kennedy to take action on the Senate bill. The House will act on the bill soon, he said, and if the bill passes, some action will have to follow on the Senate side...
Harvard has maintained a much lower profile on the Senate side, although Steven Merill, a staffer on the Senate Science and Technology subcommittee, said last week the lobbying "may be out of the ordinary for a university--especially a particular university." But generally, because of the murkiness of the legislative situation in the Senate, Harvard has not expressed a very firm position on the Senate bill...
Miller has moved into Washington with much command and in some two months he has brought to the board a new flexibility and crispness. Says one staffer: "We can't keep up with him. He's an electric mosquito." The former Textron Inc. chairman roams the Fed's cold marble halls at a slow jogger's pace, thrusting out his hand to someone he does not know and saying, "Hi, I'm Bill Miller." He signs memos "Bill," calls almost everyone at the Federal Reserve by his first name, and works in shirtsleeves...