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UC Berkeley wields financial clout.
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Contra Costa Times (Walnut Creek, Calif.) (viaKnight-Ridder/Tribune News Service)
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January 20, 2002
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Byline: George Avalos
BERKELEY, Calif. _ UC Berkeley, despite its reputation as a hotbed of free-wheeling education and left-wing activism, has become a financial dynamo that pumps $1.4 billion a year into the Bay Area economy.
That's one of the conclusions in a new study that suggests UC Berkeley is one of the key pistons in the Bay Area's economic engine. The university not only supplies a large payroll for the region, it also spends plenty of money through its vendors and acts as a funnel for research and venture capital dollars in the region.
UC Berkeley is dynamic enough that its economic impact compares favorably with that generated by universities in big ...
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