Word: chunks
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...result, innocent doctors who have devoted their lives to their patients are required to spend tens, even hundreds, of thousands of dollars a year on insurance. In effect, we are making doctors give up an entire chunk of each year laboring just to work off their insurance premiums. Why? To cover for the few offenders in their midst. To compensate the lucky few victims who stumble upon the most profligate juries. And, most important, to make a few trial lawyers very, very rich. (Herewith the requisite full disclosure: I am a doctor, though I no longer practice...
...result, innocent doctors who have devoted their lives to their patients are required to spend tens, even hundreds, of thousands of dollars a year on insurance. In effect, we are making doctors give up an entire chunk of each year laboring just to work off their insurance premiums. Why? To cover for the few offenders in their midst. To compensate the lucky few victims who stumble upon the most profligate juries. And, most important, to make a few trial lawyers very, very rich. (Herewith the requisite full disclosure: I am a doctor, though I no longer practice...
...Harvard a lot of cheating goes on in classes where papers are not involved. Several computer science teaching fellows told FM that every year a sizable chunk of the students who are forced to take a year’s leave of absence come from the CS department. And in Science Cores and introductory economics classes many students say they leisurely copy homework assignments without thinking of their actions as actual cheating. There is a lack of knowledge about the definition of cheating on campus, and that ignorance—as students who have been Ad-Boarded can attest?...
...Harvard a lot of cheating goes on in classes where papers are not involved. Several computer science teaching fellows told FM that every year a sizable chunk of the students who are forced to take a year’s leave of absence come from the CS department. And in Science Cores and introductory economics classes many students say they leisurely copy homework assignments without thinking of their actions as actual cheating. There is a lack of knowledge about the definition of cheating on campus, and that ignorance—as students who have been Ad-Boarded can attest?...
...government inquiries put a cloud over the firm's reputation--and its stock. Krawcheck was hired in October from the independent stock-research firm Sanford C. Bernstein (where she was CEO) to be Citi's designated savior. Citigroup's proud CEO, Sanford Weill, personally wooed her, reorganizing a large chunk of Citi around her. Krawcheck is now CEO of a reconstituted Smith Barney, which encompasses Citi's stock-research and retail-brokerage operations...