Word: centralization
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...start of the second half, the Crimson exhibited a more wide-open offense and a more aggressive midfield, with a central defender often moving forward with the attack...
James B. Conant '14, who came out of the ranks of Harvard's chemistry department to head the university, was the last professor without central administrative experience to head Harvard...
Wallerstein didn't always feel this way. Once upon a time, she too believed that a good divorce trumped a bad marriage where children were concerned. "The central paradigm now that is subscribed to throughout the country," says Wallerstein, "is if at the time of the breakup people will be civil with each other, if they can settle financial things fairly, and if the child is able to maintain contact with both parents, then the child is home free." Wallerstein helped build this model, she says, but now she's out to tear it down. "I'm changing my opinion...
...Bryant College uncovered a gambling ring involving student athletes; a Northwestern University running back who became the school's career rushing leader fumbled the football on the goal line to ensure that his team would not beat the point spread and that he would win his $400 wager; a Central Florida student team manager was convicted in federal court of offering $15,000 in bribes to players to hold down scoring and cover the point spread in a basketball game with Stanford; Boston College suspended 13 members of its football team for betting on college sports, including three who reportedly...
...contract, they cannot work on non-union projects. That leaves them with something they hate to do: nothing. "You see me spending all this time talking to you on the phone?" barks one top commercial agent, who sounds as if he could have hired himself from Central Casting. "That's 'cause my other line ain't ringing. Notice my assistant didn't pick up - I did. We had to let her go, to another part of the company...