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...they make the big deal, what then? It is one achievement, and a conspicuous one, to create a $2 billion corporation in a few months. It is another to sustain it. The carcasses of Orion, Zoetrope, the Ladd Co. and a dozen more litter the off-ramps of the Hollywood Freeway. In the next decade or so, plenty more virtual studios will get lost in cyberspace...
...under the old system. The Chilean economy gains as well. Assisted by the assets stashed away under the pension plan, the nation's once anemic savings rate is up to a healthy 29%. (In the U.S. it's just 3%.) That in turn has been a factor in helping sustain Chile's enviable 8% annual growth rate...
...realize is that they too will suffer if science is ever relegated to a lower place on the rung of priorities. In the long run, due to the economic burden of a scientific-technological decline, there will no longer be adequate funds to support the programs that sustain the post-modernists. This is perhaps the only good thing that may come out of discarding science...
Because federal funding helps to sustain manydepartments and programs at Harvard, Rowe says theUniversity is working hard to lobby governmentofficials not to cut money earmarked for scienceresearch efforts...
...selection of this version of womanhood as worthy of caricature, serves to sustain outdated modes of thinking--where women are objectified, consigned to the margins--thinking which is clearly at odds with Harvard's strenuous repositioning of itself as a culturally inclusive meritocracy which is responsive to gender concerns...