Word: toole
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Since the CRR's inception, students have continually protested the existence of a committee designed as an administrational tool to control political protest at Harvard. The history of student objection to the CRR spans nine years, and the boycott was perhaps the last vestige of the protest movements that produced the forerunners...
...will be expected to live on a pension of $208 a month plus $265 in social security--a total of $473 a month. The retired Harvard worker's yearly income will be less than $6000, or slightly above the national poverty level. Integration has become the cost-cutting tool that deprives the unprotected worker of the right to a secure retirement...
...different drummer for Helga Doty, a senior research associate in Biochemistry, and her coworkers, who have also begun working in the P-3 laboratory at the Biolabs. Doty's group is tackling the vast problem of how genes are turned on and off--using gene splicing as a research tool rather than an end in itself. She has been studying RNA--one of the intermediate steps the cell employs in translating the DNA code--for 22 years. Whereas Gilbert has a definite medical goal pushing him on, Doty must stab in the dark and hope to come up with...
...just a fantastic and powerful tool," Doty says. This method of including E. coli to clone many copies of the DNA template is cheap, efficient, and, above all, it produces pure mixtures of the DNA. Despite gene splicing abilities, which may speed up the work by years, Doty says without any hint of discouragement, "disecting out what any of this means is going to take a tremendous amount of time...
...indeed a far cry from the paternalism of Pusey, for Powers is a tough negotiator. But toughness can become an obsession. By trying to maintain a hard-line image, Powers may have forgotten compromise can be as effective a bargaining tool as intimidation. Steiner says, "It would be a major concern to me if we had a bitter relationship with our employees...