Word: numbering
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Harvard would do very well indeed to increase the number of women and minority faculty members," Robert Levin said. "And this is an important chair in which that could be done...
...would argue that a quarter, perhaps more, of what undergraduates learn is learned outside the classroom. I can't remember the number of times a friend and I have stayed up late into the night (invariably the night before a paper is due) discussing subjects such as racial profiling and the causes of the English Revolution. Sections are helpful, of course, but their main importance is in laying the groundwork for further exchanges of ideas that would rarely occur without the physical proximity of other students. Distance learning, in contrast, is a very individual approach to learning complemented only...
Finding a special edge is crucial in the increasingly flooded and fragmented fragrance marketplace. In 1979 Edwards, who produces the annual guide Fragrances of the World, classified 37 new scents, a number that grew to 58 in 1989. By last year, with everybody from clothing designers to celebrities to established houses piling on, the figure had rocketed to 264. Unfortunately, sales in the $7.4 billion European fragrance market have not kept pace. Indeed, over the past five years they have stagnated...
...good news, experts say, is that the bias is beginning to fade. An increasing number of start-ups that may have previously shunned the "gray hairs" (anybody over 35 in Silicon Valley parlance) have learned that bringing in a high-level executive with a 15- or 20-year track record can be essential to getting the job done...
...filling out forms, and then timed how long it took for the participants to finish. Kelly compared the results from the three test groups--about 40 forms in all--and found them almost identical to the equations she had worked out by adjusting her 1990 estimates for the fewer number of questions on the 2000 questionnaires. That's how she arrived at the 10-min. figure...