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Every 20 years or so, a new president takes the helm of Harvard University with visionary plans to build or strengthen one of the institution's pillars...
Instead, the president-designate wants to strengthen the entire University by building the linkages and connective tissue between and within the separate faculties...
That slide may finally be over. Congress has boosted the agency's budget by $150 million in the past two years, to $682 million for 1991, and the number of staff positions is up again to about 8,400. With that backing, Kessler hopes to strengthen the FDA in all areas. By picking on big food companies sensitive to publicity, he has made an astute start at establishing himself -- and re-establishing the FDA -- as the nation's top health...
...institute is one of the jewels in the crown of the Soviet military- industrial complex, the vast archipelago of factories, ministries, design bureaus and think tanks that exists to sustain and strengthen the country's armed forces. While the Soviet Union's other power centers -- the Communist Party, the army marshals and generals, the KGB -- are well known in the West, the military-industrial complex has received far less attention...
...They get to take a lot of classes that they may have missed and they strengthen themselves in other areas like economics or foreign policy," Kovach said...