Scientists have tried to devise processes that make wood denser, to obtain materials suitable for high-strength applications, but with limited success.
Rather than pretending to draw bright-line rules that break down in the real world, policy makers should focus on how to devise processes that ensure that regulators can be held to account no matter what.
The hard part was devising a process that would be credible to all of the interested parties, including top management, dozens of project teams, the heads of SB's four major therapy areas, and executives from key functions such as strategic marketing, finance, and business development—all spread across Europe, the United States, and Japan.
At Yale, he devised a process that allows mass production of genetically altered mice, an important step toward decoding the genome.
In 2007, Branson offered a cash prize of twenty-five million dollars to anyone who could devise a process that would drain large quantities of greenhouse gases from the atmosphere).
A form of self-healing concrete was developed in 2009, when a team at the Delft University of Technology devised a process that involves mixing a special bacterium into the concrete before it is poured.
(The company is one of the finalists for Richard Branson's Virgin Earth Challenge prize. In 2007, Branson offered a cash prize of twenty-five million dollars to anyone who could devise a process that would drain large quantities of greenhouse gases from the atmosphere).
The bill calls on the Education Secretary to devise a process that would refinance FFEL loans owned by private lenders and investors.
