Word: numbering
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2000
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...There is a sizable number of social and religious conservatives who tend to vote Republican," Ransom writes in an e-mail message...
...January 1999, at the first meeting of the council's Student Affairs Committee, Gusmorino and Shumsky independently introduced the idea of selling textbooks on-line. They wanted to write a computer algorithm that could compare prices from a number of different on-line book vendors, factoring in shipping costs, taxes and speed of delivery to help students find the cheapest price...
...Students also criticize economists for their focus on numbers and statistics, rather than on humans. "Economics professors tend to take mathematical models and make them into normative models in the real world," says Sitgraves. "They create these models under a number of assumptions, some of which do not hold in real-world situations. Economists are creating models that are getting further and further away from reality...
Upon moving from Boston to Newton in 1957 after three years with the Coast Guard, Miller undertook a number of projects to improve his new community...
...explanation is that while a significant number of Harvard students characterize themselves as liberal--outnumbering conservatives almost three to one--there is substantial disagreement as to what that term really means. The few broad issues that used to galvanize liberals, notably the war in Vietnam, have given way to more diverse concerns that might concern only a small fragment of self-described liberals. Today, students charge into battle under the liberal banner for gender and racial equality, gay rights and stricter University labor policies. These causes, while admirable, have failed to garner the same kind of sweeping support that enlivened...