Word: staying
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...addition, the prospect of vast riches to be had in the biotechnology field can act as a powerful lure for faculty and potential faculty. The new commercial venture could act as an incentive for professors to stay here, rather than venture into the for-profit world as Professor Walter Gilbert did in 1980 when he resigned from the faculty to work at Biogen. And Harvard's plan could play a more noble role by accelerating the development of important medical cures and technologies...
Growing numbers of pregnant women who cannot stay off crack are causing a new wave of drug-damaged infants...
...quite profitable. Now that many home loans have adjustable interest rates, few S and Ls should be savaged, as they were in the early 1980s, by having to pay high rates to depositors while receiving low yields on long-term mortgages. Furthermore, real estate prices in the Southwest cannot stay depressed forever. "We're at or near the bottom of the cycle for the Texas economy," says William Gibson, a former Continental Illinois banker who, with other investors, last month paid $48 million for twelve troubled Texas S and Ls (combined assets: $2.4 billion...
...that time, Kersee was coaching both her and Al, and on a remarkable August night the two schemers from Piggott Avenue made history. Al had all but won the triple jump when Jackie took her mark in the 800-meter run, the finale of the heptathlon. If she could stay within about 15 yds. of the Australian Glynis Nunn, Jackie's lead under the weighted point system would hold up. But her left leg was bound with a hamstring wrap that crippled her confidence more than her stride...
Inundated by monsoons, Bangladesh struggles to stay afloat. -- The I.R.A. ups the military ante. -- Iraq vs. the Kurds...