Word: academia
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...addition to a strong academic record, successful applicants must have a demonstrated interest in careers in academia or research...
Although the late night scene at Kinko's, the Tasty and the handful of convenience stores in the area is obscured by the daily blizzard of academia and consumerism, it is the only culture available between the hours of 3 and 5 every morning...
Such a vision, expressed so unabashedly by a bona fide member of the academic elite, stands to make a splash in the upmarket reaches of academia, theology and perhaps even among mainline Protestant preachers. In the meantime, however, a fellow revivalist is stirring up more populist waters. Joni Eareckson Tada, a quadriplegic since a diving accident at age 17, is well-known in conservative Protestantism. She appeared on a Billy Graham Crusade, wrote a best-selling autobiography whose royalties she used to found a religious organization to aid the handicapped, and has a radio program airing on 700 stations. Like...
...semiretirement, off the phone (he is a well-known phone and fax abuser) and away from the mail (he answers every letter). Even his wife Alma was thinking he ought to get out of the basement more. He had a stack of offers from corporate boards, foundations and academia that if laid end to end would circle the Pentagon and make the Republican who actually did run weep. Then Ray Chambers, a philanthropist who has devoted the past decade to salvaging kids in Newark, New Jersey, asked Powell to look at an idea, first proposed by Governor George Romney before...
Percy H. Granger '67, a Harvard-educated American playwright who was known for his wit on academia, died on Monday at his home in Manhattan after a cardiac arrest...