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Science students watch out: the Federal Government is coming for your degree. The National Science Foundation, which has a lot of clout and a $3billion budget, will meet Thursday in Washington D.C. to discuss possible changes to PhDs and other courses in science and engineering. The problem, as the NSF see it, is that there are too many students and not enough academic slots for them to fill. One solution being floated is to have a more generic "doctor of science" degree that could be more easily adapted to the needs of industry. TIME Daily's soultion: take a leaf...
...partnership with Westinghouse Electric Corp.and Lehman Brothers put Lennar in control of $3billion worth of assets for about half of theirvalue, as well...
...Monrad adds, "There has to be [aUniversity-wide drive], and it will be in the $3billion range before we're done...There's anirresistible tide pushing the campaign forward,despite a natural reluctance [to changetraditional modes of fundraising...
...university, whose endowment totals over $3billion, recieves approximately $118 millionannually in federal research funding, she said...
Stem's sense of the odds has made Ladbroke's the leader of Britain's $3billion-a-year legalized bookmaking business. Founded at the turn of the century and long famed as the "bookmaker to the Establishment," the snobbish West End-based firm had all but faded away along with its blueblooded patrons when Stein's uncle bought the entire outfit in 1956 for a paltry $700,000. The son of a prosperous London horse-parlor and turf-news-service operator, Stein himself became Ladbroke's top man in 1958 at age 30. Last year...
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