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...Laskin calls “catch as catch can.” But even when students receive confirmation from professors, there is no job guarantee because fluctuations during the shopping week lead to confusing estimates about eventual enrollment. This complicated problem of predicting enrollment figures, combined with an archaic, decentralized and inefficient hiring process, leaves both professors and graduate students in the dark. Consequently, as doctoral candidate in sociology Felix V. Elwert explained, shopping period becomes the “week from hell.” While undergraduates are leisurely shopping for courses, potential TFs from across the University...
Last week’s denial was based on an 1869 Canadian patent law and an archaic definition of an invention as a “composition of matter.” This wording appears in United States patent law as well and originates with Thomas Jefferson, said David Morrow, the Ottawa lawyer who represented Harvard before the court...
Benefits managers like Scarpa are falling in love with Internet-based procurement software--and asking where it's been all their lives. For years, companies have used the Net to obtain bids for everything from paper clips to laptops and industrial chemicals. Yet buying health care has remained an archaic, labor-intensive and costly process. Both employers and providers have treated health care as too complex and variable to be put up for online bids. As auction software has become more sophisticated, though, companies are using it to award gnarly contracts for relocation, travel and other complicated services. Today these...
...National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, is that "effective international pressure may have an effect on North Korea." Pyongyang's posture - as erratic and obtuse as it may be - has been driven primarily by the need to end its international isolation. Economic stasis and mass starvation have made the archaic Stalinist regime centered on the personality cult of its "Dear Leader" Kim Jong Il desperate not only for trade and investment, but even for food aid from some of its traditional enemies...
...camps, they could provide neither the long-term housing nor the counseling that the former residents of the homeless camps so desperately need. There is no denying the camps were unpleasant, but removing them without making plans to address the larger problem of persistent homelessness is as archaic a remedy as bleeding a patient to combat an infection...