Funding foreign

Our customers include the Administration of the President of Russia, Russian Customs, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Health Care, the Immigration Service, the Pension Fund, and many important Russian banks. 

The patentee should develop and implement a poHcy for auditing its patent portfoHo in the process of paying maintenance fees to the U.S. PTO. This practice should also be used to justify the further payment of aimuities to foreign national patent offices. Maintenance fees and aimuities can constitute a substantial portion of funds expended in the protection of patents over a year s time. Further, without a tangible, real commercial value or advantage stemming from the patent, there may be Htde justification for maintaining the patent over its last five years of life. 

As explained by R. Branand (55) while U.S. manufacturers are well aware of the barriers imposed on U.S. collaborations by antitrust considerations. However they are usually not as familiar with the opportunities that are encouraged. Properly structured the competitor association can help USA companies achieve goals such as expanding into foreign markets, funding expensive innovations efforts, and lowering production and other... 

The Bureau of Mines, within the Department of the Interior, funds a substantial amount of chemical engineering research in its in-house laboratories, particularly in the area of hydrometallrugical separation processes. The U.S. minerals industry is currently in a depressed state typified by diminished research efforts within industrial laboratories and, in some cases, wholesale termination of research operations. As a result, new researchers have bleak prospects for industrial employment. At the same time, the United States cannot afford to lose a professional generation of research persormel in an area that would be of critical importance if foreign supplies of certain metals were interrupted. 

As Bernstein s Chief Counsel of Foreign Funds Control, I had helped to freeze I.G. Farben s assets in the Western Hemisphere. Bernstein and I had worked on the executive order which placed under the vigilant eye of the Treasury Department Farben s main holdings in the United States — the companies of the old American I. G. Chemical Corporation, which was renamed "General Aniline and Film Corporation."... 

I was then, in 1943, Chief Counsel of the Treasury s Foreign Funds Control. The Treasury had prohibited financial transactions between occupied Europe and the United States, and we had been studying how we might use the power of foreign exchange to get some refugees, Jewish and non-Jewish, out of Europe. 

John Pehle, head of Foreign Funds Control, was often referred to as Morgenthau s fair-haired boy. He was blond, not many years out of Yale, and an extremely able administrator. Usually, he was calm now he was furious. For two months death had lain on State Department desks. Roughly 200,000 more refugees — political and "Eastern peoples" as well as Jews — had been killed. Pehle put the matter up to me. 

Another development is that China National Technical Import Corporation (CNTIC), a unit under Ministry of Foreign Trade, is losing importance to CNCCC, which is under MCI. CNCC is responsible for purchasing and constructing chemical and petrochemical plants with MCI controlling the bulk of funds and the allocation of crude oil, which is used as feedstock. 

The inspiration for this symposium emerged from stimulating discussions with colleagues at the Gordon Conference on Environmental Sciences Water held at New Hampton, N.H., in June 1984 (chaired by C. R. O Melia). Several people assisted with the selection of speakers, including J. O. Leckie, L. N. Plummer, G. A. Parks, D. D. Eberl, A. F. White, A. T. Stone, and J. C. Westall. Financial support for foreign speakers was provided by the ACS Petroleum Research Fund and each of the sponsoring ACS divisions. 

Acknowledgment is made to the donors of the Petroleum Research Fund, administered by the American Chemical Society, for their financial support that enabled foreign speakers to travel to the symposium upon which this volume is based. 

He had a warm regard and respect for the United States of America and took special pride in his work for the Pilgrim Trust and the Commonwealth Fellowship Fund. He travelled widely in the U. S. A. where he made many lasting friendships. Amongst these many activities may be mentioned his visits to Williamstown as Foreign Lecturer at the Institute of Politics (1926), to Princeton as Vanuxem Lecturer (1929) and to Yale as Woodward Lecturer (1931). 

Finally, financial support that made it possible for many foreign speakers to participate in the symposium is most gratefiilly acknowledged. Substantial contributions were made by the following Amoco Production Company, Arco Oil and Gas Company, Conoco Inc., Consolidation Coal Company, Mobil Research and Development Corporation, Unocal Corporation, and the American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund. 

Acknowledgement. The Teramobile project (www.teramobile.org) is funded by the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) and the Deutsche Forschungs-gemeinschaft (DFG), with contribution by the French and German ministries of Foreign Affairs. 

Twenty years of official documentation — from American, Japanese, Taiwanese, and Soviet sources — that the People s Republic of China grows and exports opium not only to earn foreign exchange, but to fund secret intelligence operations, through Chinese expatriates ... 

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