Word: centralization
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...central administrators struggle to fix the system, they must work with the faculties to mend broken lines of communication. And they must convince faculty and staff that the $112 million being spent on Project ADAPT is not in vain...
...staking his company's future on its ability to slash administrative costs. For every dollar in a typical school's budget, 20[cents] to 30[cents] goes to administration. Edison spends around 16[cents] and plans to cut that to 8[cents]. "The money we save on central costs goes to the schools, and a portion goes to the bottom line," Whittle says. His goal is a 7%-to-8% profit margin. "If we were simply going to cut overall costs," he notes, "we would not be viable." Whittle puts the magic number of schools that Edison needs...
...hardback offering of this year, Carolina Moon (Putnam; 438 pages; $24.95). This novel is a romance tooled to attract readers of popular fiction who may not think, or know, that they like romances. It is longer than Roberts' formula books and offers a larger cast of characters. The central love story is buttressed by a second one between supporting players. And Roberts includes elements from other pop genres, including a paranormal ability and a long-unsolved murder...
...attempting to revivify an Anglo-Saxon poem. When younger, he notes, "I tended to conceive of English and Irish as adversarial tongues, as either/or conditions rather than both/ands." But this notion faded the deeper he got into his translation. Digging, delving into the loam of language, has been a central metaphor throughout his poetic career. (His most recent selection is titled Opened Ground.) What Heaney has brought to the surface with his Beowulf is an old and newly burnished treasure...
...agree that only one beer makes St. Patty's day truly authentic. "Yeah, go with Guinness. Put down the Sam Adams on Saint Patty's Day. Guinness is different and I think better," decrees a female bartender at The Cellar, another nightspot five minutes' walk down Mass Ave past Central Square. Budweiser and, God forbid, Sam Adams should only come into play as last resorts. Even then it can be dangerous to tipple a bottle of Sam in a self-respecting Irish...