Word: academia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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None of the four--at one time or another stellar junior skaters--competes on "the circuit" anymore, having bartered sit spins and waltz jumps for the pen and quill of academia; needless to say, studies just don't mix with the seven and eight hours daily competitive figure skaters pump into workouts (you decide which one settles to the bottom). "An Evening" affords skaters like Rehkamp et al a prestigious opportunity to showcase the fruits of what was obviously once a large part of their lives, and they take advantage of it. All four have participated before; all but Rehkamp...
Much of the city, especially the working class wards, consider the CCA elitist, anti-labor, anti-union, and overly cozy with academia, St. George said...
...significant percentage change for many, many, many years," especially with the slow pace at which tenure spots are vacated, Randolph says. John D. Montgomery, chairman of the Government Department, also notes that many women with Ph.D's in his field now choose government posts, rendering them unavailable for academia...
...ticket to a successful career--may leave only slightly disillusioned. For their myth is at the core of the University. Harvard is not a place of wisdom--but rather a place where achievement is the product of aggression, where professors are not valued for teaching, and where academia serves as a training ground for the nation's law firms and corporations.CrimsonNevin I. Shalit...
...their labs, usually at the taxpayers' expense, doing basic research?that is, research promising fresh insights into the fundamental truths of nature, regardless of the prospect of immediate payoffs. The bioengineering firms, by contrast, must set their sights on quick returns. Will the new alliance between industry and academia destroy the old objective "purity" of science? Will scientists still freely exchange information or lab specimens, as they have often done in the past, if they know a colleague works for a rival firm? Will they forsake long-term investigations into nagging questions like the origins of cancer in favor...