Word: chicago
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...expert, Allen Sanderson—an economist at the University of Chicago who has studied the economics of sports—says that a football stadium is a bad investment for the citizens of New York...
Khalidi specializes in the history of the modern Middle East and has written extensively about Palestine. He previously taught at the University of Chicago and graduated from Oxford University...
...Norwich, Conn. local received his bachelor’s degree at Yale in 1930 and a master’s degree from the University of Chicago in 1931, before going on to obtain a doctorate from the University at Gottingen, Germany...
After brief teaching stints at several colleges, including Harvard, he later returned to the University of Chicago and remained as a professor there for over three decades...
...example, it turns out that drug dealers don't really make so much money after all. Levitt and a colleague who had obtained copies of a Chicago gang's accounting books found that street-corner crack dealers in the 1980s made less than minimum wage. They stayed in the job because they aspired to rise through the ranks and make six figures--which only a few top leaders ever achieved. In other words, the authors explain, "the gang's wages [were] about as skewed as wages in corporate America...