Word: centralization
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...says she thinks a number will go into government agencies in developing countries, such as ministries of finance, central banks, or the offices of prime ministers. Others will go into non-governmental organizations, such as the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, or other less known ones. Some will work on the donor end of international development, with governments such as the United States and Japan. Finally, she expects a few will go into private consultation...
Despite news reports that insinuated Stanford computers were central to last week's attacks, which brought down popular sites like eBay.com, Amazon.com and Yahoo!, Stanford computer security officers say the university's involvement was minimal...
Harvard's computers are managed in the same way as Stanford's, where a central computer group is responsible for the main system, but academic departments maintain their own internal systems...
Tensions between the faculty and the central administration came to a head over a report by Rudenstine that suggested a 1 percent reduction in faculty benefits. Some faculty members criticized the administration for running Harvard like a business...
...given by Jesus to the bishops and the Pope. Joseph is reluctant to indulge the "witnessing" common among certain Protestant services. When a woman talks about a vision of angels, or a man talks of being reborn, he cautions against self-centeredness and says fealty to Jesus is the central point of prayer. Asked to sing Ave Maria, he resists at first but then hushes a room with a sonorous baritone. A woman mutters, "I don't care who he says he is--you only learn to sing that way from nuns...