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...officials from the schools contacted say they are making efforts to combat these difficulties and to draw qualified candidates to pursue careers in academia, especially at Harvard...
...combat the pool difficulty, Cross says the Divinity School "does a significant outreach to a wide variety of colleagues" in all faculty searches...
Eastwood plans his productions like military campaigns and compares his role to that of an officer in combat. "Making a film takes on a life of its own," he says. "You guide that life along like a platoon leader, getting everybody kind of enthused to charge the hill." To a relative newcomer like actress Frances Fisher, who plays the prostitute Strawberry Alice in Unforgiven and is Eastwood's current companion, it all seems seamless. "He is the most confident director I have ever seen. He kind of glides through it all." Distractions are kept to a minimum and posturing discouraged...
...successfully. Yeltsin's other economic pledges were a mixture of capitalism -- making the privatization of state-run industry that has already occurred "irreversible" and offering long-overdue tax breaks to small and medium-size businesses -- and good old populist pork barrel, including public works programs to combat unemployment...
...that a target is identified," Arnaout said, drug companies can begin to develop "safe and effective therapeutics" to combat inflammations. Such drugs could prevent neutrophils from being "turned on" and inflaming an injury by blocking receptor sites, he said...