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Administered by the government's DefenseAdvanced Research Projects Agency, the nationwideURI program is "designed to strengthen the abilityof universities to conduct research and educatescientists and engineers in 10 technologiesimportant to national defense," DOD officialssaid...
...numerous Harvard researchers are currently advising the Aquino administration on issues ranging from agrarian reform to industrial policy, as Aquino attempts to strengthen a floundering economy...
Warding off such a flare-up is also, paradoxically enough, the real goal behind the Administration's new initiative. The basic aim of the package is to strengthen America's bargaining hand with foreign competitors without giving Congress the opportunity to make use of such blunt instruments as sizable tariffs and other devices that would provoke retaliation and choke off trade wholesale...
...workers in a bid to enhance U.S. competitiveness, a favorite Washington buzz word. Another is a doubling of the National Science Foundation's budget over the next five years, to $3.2 billion, to help buttress U.S. research and development. The Administration also wants to strengthen existing laws designed to keep foreign manufacturers from dumping goods in the U.S. at prices that are less than the cost of production. Among other things, the White House wants to stop companies that are evading those restrictions by shipping underpriced components, rather than fully assembled products, into the U.S. marketplace...
...remain in Cambridge, Riesman has remained busy as ever. Besides researching academic institutions, he serves on the executive board of the Kennedy School and has taken an active role on President Derek C. Bok's panel on evaluating teaching. In 1984, he served on a national commission working to strengthen university presidential leadership...