Word: alongism
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...come in and say, 'I want to make sure I use all my insurance benefits before the end of the year," says Woody Oakes, a dentist in New Albany, Indiana, and editor of The Profitable Dentist magazine. "Ireland, the U.K., Brazil - dentists everywhere are telling me the same thing." Along with their smiles, employees are also rushing to look after their sight: Specsavers, a U.K. eyeglasses retailer with 12,000 corporate clients, saw year-on-year growth of 40% in 2008, despite the downturn. Corporate insurance provider CIGNA UK expects claims to jump as the crisis worsens. Says marketing director...
...happy that I could in some ways instigate the conversation. People who may not have considered the issue before considered it. But I think it was a train that was rolling along on its own. It didn't need a lot of help from...
...Newly admitted students and parents looking for more information on the college experience had the opportunity to attend a Sunday afternoon panel discussion about “What It’s like to be a Harvard Freshman.” The panel-discussion, anchored by two students along with Katie W. Steele, the Freshman Dean’s Office director for freshman programming, and Sandra Naddaff, the acting director of the freshman seminar program, addressed questions dealing with freshman-faculty interaction, community growth, and the typical life of a Harvard College freshman. “When...
...most recent directors—Sommers and Richard Marius, both nationally renowned for their work in the field of writing composition—in that Jehn does not have as strong a record of published works.Jehn was one of four finalists for the director position, along with writing program directors from comparable institutions. Though the advertisement Harvard released for the job said that an applicant must be a “published author in a liberal arts discipline and/or on writing pedagogy in refereed journal,” one writing program director with knowledge of the search, who asked...
...This time, though, the Western world took a bait it had set for itself. Ahmadinejad’s assertions that Israel is a “cruel and repressive racist regime” were made at a United Nations conference on racism in Geneva that the United States, along with the Netherlands, Germany, New Zealand, Australia, Canada, Israel, and Italy, had already decided to boycott over concerns that Ahmadinejad would abuse it in precisely this manner. That political leaders and journalists are now focusing nonstop on the inflammatory remarks indicates that Western countries’ decision not to attend...