Word: accountants
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Three selection committees, one each for the humanities, social sciences and the natural sciences, take into account a student's GPA along with two letters of recommendation, Waltman said...
...when it first emerged in September. "It's based on third- and fourth-hand gossip and hearsay," says James Kallstrom, the FBI's investigator. The Navy says its nearest vessel was 180 miles away, far out of missile range. The FBI says it has independently verified the Navy's account and that the plane wreckage recovered so far shows no signs of a missile blast. Salinger has also made much of a photograph, published in France by the magazine Paris Match, which was taken on the outdoor deck of a Long Island restaurant on the evening of the crash, which...
...winter of 1916-17 was arctic, and the next summer saw only 5 in. of rain. Crops and credit dried up, farmsteads failed. Even today a curious visitor has no trouble finding the husks of homesteaders' abandoned houses, some with clothes still in closets and perhaps a hopeless account book yellowing on a kitchen floor...
...factor in the new cancer statistics--both good and bad--was smoking. Cigarette consumption has dropped sharply in the past 30 years--from 4,194 per capita annually in 1964 to 2,515 today--and the effects of that drop are finally starting to show up. Lung cancers still account for 30% of all cancer deaths, but in those demographic groups that cut back sharply--male Caucasians, for example--lung-cancer death rates have dropped impressively (6.7%). Conversely, a lot of women took up smoking over the same period, which may account for the rise in lung-cancer rates among...
Toshiba, the world leader in laptops, realized two years ago that compact machines would not dominate half of the PC market, so they went to work on a desktop version (laptops, pricey and difficult to upgrade, currently account for only some 20% of computers). "A lot of it was discussion around life-style and ease of use," says Ron Smith, a Toshiba marketing V.P., describing the development of the Infinia. "The concept was to design it for real people who are used to using stereos...