Word: sargent
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...there are others who don’t agree with Ward’s initial conclusions. Dunster House History Tutor Daniel J. Sargent warned against generalizing, noting that social life in his own house is “very self-contained...
...have to catch them young if you want to increase the number of women in the upper ranks of science and math. Otherwise, says Anneila Sargent, an astronomy professor and radio-observatory director at the California Institute of Technology, if you wait until graduate school, "the pot of candidates just isn't that big." Nor is there much turnover on the tenure track. Even after a high-profile push at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, women accounted for just 34 of the school's 262 science professors in 2003--or 13% of the total, up from 8% in 1993. Says...
...SARGENT: In terms of employment, for both small and medium-size business, it looks nice and steady. Small business led us into this recession, they got crunched first, and I think they are leading...
...SARGENT: The biggest complaint we got from customers was "I know it's here, but I can't find it." So this new format is much more of a low profile: you walk five steps into the store, and you can see the entire store. And we're upgrading the capabilities of our copy centers so we can really be competitive with Kinko...
...SARGENT: Three years ago, it was 8% of our sales. Today it is 15%. There's not a lot of brand recognition in our industry. Now we're testing selling office supplies at Kroger and Stop & Shop. Down the road, I'd like for Staples to be the national-brand office product...