Word: academia
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Birmingham compared the incentive program to the "star system" in academia, where a sliding-scale pay system rewards high-profile professors with higher salaries...
Dorfman said that Leontief's prominence was due to his meticulous compilation and analysis of evidence, which was deficient in academia at the time...
Just as you have to pity people who don't know how to type, you sort of have to pity people who, when graduating, have no interest in going into law, medicine, academia, public service or business. The vast majority of Harvard graduates in recent years have taken one of these five paths. These are obviously great choices if one wants to be a lawyer, doctor, scholar, civil servant or financier. But for hundreds of undecided students, choosing one of these five options is a lot like getting stuck with the least efficient keyboard in the world. What makes them...
What prompted Waller to decorate this way? "I always have a lot of friends come over and I need a comfortable place away from academia," he says. But why do several rows of square mirrors panel the walls surrounding the bed? "The mirrors make [it] look bigger." Do they...
Still, I'm told there was a time when academia stood apart from popular currents and evaluated them from a critical perspective. It is a great loss to today's undergraduates that our teachers are no longer critics but, instead, are the most zealous flag-bearers of prevailing social trends...