Word: three-year
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Last week, the raucous three-year saga ended quietly, as the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination (MCAD) rejected Schkolnick's final appeal, claiming a lack of jurisdiction to intervene in the matters of a private club. SWAT has been swatted, ZIP has been zipped and the Fly remains open--open to continue its antiquarian membership policies, open to perpetuate an elitist old-boy network, open to treat women like slabs of meat...
...partially a public relations effort aimed at changing business's jaundiced view of education. "Employers see it as a positive indication that a public agency is willing to be held accountable," says Bernard Sidman, superintendent of the Plymouth-Carver school district, where high school graduates last year began receiving three-year warranties along with their diplomas. But there are benefits for schools too. Teachers, for example, like the idea as a show of confidence in their abilities. The hope is that students will feel the same. At Plymouth-Carver, average Scholastic Aptitude Test scores have shot up 30 points...
Disney was No. 1 in market share last year, but the studio's profits hit a three-year low. Katzenberg's prescription: smaller budgets and fewer films like Dick Tracy, last summer's comic-book extravaganza starring Beatty and Madonna that cost an estimated $100 million to make and market. While the movie has grossed nearly $200 million in theaters worldwide, Katzenberg complains that it has "static" characters who fail to evolve, and he suspects that it was not worth the expense or the 10 years of development effort. "Thanks to the dictates of the blockbuster mentality," he writes...
...also created the Urban Superintendent's program--a three-year doctoral training program which works to fill positions in city school systems. And her innovative Mid-Career Math and Science program helps career scientists make the transition into public school teaching...
...show that it can be done, Henderson in Seattle completed a three-year pilot study, funded by the National Institutes of Health, of 2,000 postmenopausal women who were painstakingly taught how to follow a 20% fat diet. "We give them a Ph.D. in fat," she explains. Her hope was that the pilot would lead to NIH funding of a 10-year effort with 24,000 women. No such luck. A competing proposal for a similar study that would cost $107 million was on the verge of being financed when an NCI advisory panel decided last month...