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AUGUST 17, 2009

The university found government contracts profitable as the government reimbursed their overhead charges (their indirect costs.) Over a hundred government contractors reviewed Stanford’s work on tubes and systems. The lab would repeat the conference the following week for government agencies doing military work.

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APRIL 6, 2009

The Arms Factories that Won the Cold War Were Semiconductor Factories Who was the government official pushing all of this? Upon his return he became a public figure but he was never allowed an access to any classified information let alone advise the government on SDI – nor anything else for that matter.

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OCTOBER 26, 2009

Yet one of the most remarkable things about the boom in microwave and silicon startups occurring in the 1950’s and 60’s was that it was done without venture capital. These technology startups had no risk capital – just customers/purchase orders from government/military/intelligence agencies. There was none. Whitney Co.

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OCTOBER 29, 2009

to spur innovation was a new government agency to fund new companies. government would invest three (up to $300,000.) And for the first time, private companies like Continental Capital, Pitch Johnson & Bill Draper and Sutter Hill were formed to take advantage of the government largesse from the SBA.

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AUGUST 3, 2009

The Cold War After World War II ended, our wartime ally the Soviet Union kept its army in Eastern Europe and forcibly installed Communist governments in its occupied territories. That same year China fell to the communists under Mao Zedong, and the Nationalist government retreated to Taiwan. Meanwhile the U.S.

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APRIL 15, 2009

As part of this spin out I’d make sure the Government also supports the nascent U.S. As I said, I am far from an expert in the auto industry, government bailouts or other related big “businesses”. Maybe the public can be better served by the government just subsidizing battery research. with the auto bailout. Reply Michael F.

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APRIL 7, 2009

Reply Anthony , on April 7, 2009 at 1:10 pm Said: “One candidate got a C in macroeconomics…That’s troubling to me.

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JULY 23, 2009

government kept up the pace. From a standing start in 1942 the U.S. scaled up the production of U-235 and plutonium from micrograms to tens of kilograms by 1945. We built new cities in Hanford, Oak Ridge and Los Alamos and put 130,000 people to work on the project. During the cold war, the U.S.

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APRIL 24, 2012

The truth is that the.NET community, outside of the thought leadership at Microsoft and a few outliers (e.g. It’s like arguing against vertical software. What do you give this startup’s chance of success with this kind of clueless leadership? StackOverflow), is anemic. March 26, 2011 at 9:02 am. NET bias.

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