Word: stage
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...erode the openness of a scientific culture that produced a discovery. The glimmer of profit can influence research choices by convincing a professor to pursue a lucrative field instead of working on more esoteric subjects. Professors may withhold the publication of their findings until they reach the patenting stage--as happened several times last year in the field of superconductors--even refusing to informally discuss their research with their colleagues. Consulting or using university facilities for commercial research may divert faculty time from research and teaching duties...
Jokes with a social conscience--at least that's the aim of Comedy Night, when several performers will take the stage at Sanders Theater tonight to raise money for Harvard social service groups...
Jazz For Life closed with an everybody-on-stage rendition of "Put a Little Love in Your Heart," led by Fiona Anderson, Brian Williams, and Daniel Banks. This beat the mushy "We Are the World" hands down, though the message was the same. Great show, great ending...
...little business, in part because few Bulgarians understood commercial finance. The media remained mostly muzzled. At last month's party conference, Zhivkov delivered an underlying message of caution and restraint even as he insisted that "revolutionary changes" would continue in Bulgaria. Stressing that Bulgaria's development henceforth would be "stage by stage," Zhivkov indicated that some major reforms would be delayed until...
...case, deep-seated nationalism has cemented widespread, largely unquestioning loyalty to the system. The folksy Zhivkov, after nearly 34 years in power, remains remarkably popular, especially with rural Bulgarians, and is believed to be in good health. He has shown no inclination to move off the political stage but has hinted that he may retire within the next two years. No one knows whether that too is a reform that might be pushed back...