Word: clustered
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Sperber's problem is that he can't keep his mouth shut. He sees corruption and hypocrisy in big-time college sports, and he writes books that land like cluster bombs, sparing no one. He sees universities spending gazillions on new stadiums and practice facilities while stiffing undergraduate education, and he papers academia's ivory towers with the evidence. It's been a virtuous crusade, but Sperber made one blasphemous mistake along the way. In May he called for I.U. to fire radioactive, chair-tossing basketball coach Bobby Knight...
...surprising results spurred me to widen the sample last week with calls to 10 other Wall Street types. Their range of answers ran along the same lines as that of my paddle-tennis pals. The quickest predicted recovery was 12 months; the most drawn out, seven years. The biggest cluster by far was around a five-year recovery, which is the eye opener...
Cigar in hand, Jurgen Schrempp last spring was maintaining what had become a ritual on his regular visits to New York City--holding court at the St. Regis Hotel's King Cole Bar with a cluster of DaimlerChrysler's top executives. When an old business acquaintance wandered over to wish him well, Schrempp responded expansively with introductions to "my management board." The acquaintance shook all hands and then said with a chuckle, "But Jurgen, where are the Americans...
...there is something. Bush, who has already once in this race found coasting to be a fruitless endeavor, is trying it again after a cluster of potentially self-fulfilling polls - Americans love to pick a winner - showed him emerging from the debate season with a just-bigger-than-margin-of-error-sized lead. A little daylight. Ever since, Bush has been grinning, and the lead has been shrinking...
...discovered by trial and error is a balance between open and closed spaces, between individual work and collaborative effort. It is the compromise Brill is currently suggesting to his clients, adding to the mix the crucial element of choice. "We're recommending team spaces in the middle of a cluster of small private offices," he says. "If you open the door, you're in the team space. If it's shut...