Word: broads
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Along with nine other business schools, HBS has developed a program, called Women in Business Forums, that aim "to send a message that a business degree is very broad and is the kind of degree that can be very useful to anyone wanting to make an impact on an organization," according to Achenbaum...
First, then, there must be changes within the council. Most significant will be a change in the structure of the council's cabinet. Past cabinets have been composed of 10 or so students charged with broad concerns like "public spaces." The instinct to delegate responsibility to single students is good, but the broad arenas of past cabinet positions have left room for improvement. As a result, the new cabinet will be composed fundamentally of three directors--education, house life and college life. These areas mirror the student-faculty committees to which the council elects delegates. Most importantly, council members will...
Even antibiotics for the common cold can have adverse effects. Over 230 million prescriptions are written each year in the United States, and physicians and patients alike have come to believe that broad-spectrum antibiotics are effective against almost any infection...
...course, while the great majority of Americans may say that they are opposed to cuts, there is good reason to suspect that many hold such opinions lightly. So long as spending falls within some fairly broad range, a significant share of the public doesn't especially care. This indifference leaves politicians and those special interests that do care--in particular, the American Association of Retired Persons (AARP)--room to maneuver. As a result of activities by groups such as the AARP, spending on entitlements for seniors tends toward the upper end of the range that the broader public finds acceptable...
...adds that she wishes she were not the only Vietnamese studies professor at Harvard and that she could teach courses on focused topics as well as broad introductory classes...