Word: cohorts
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...deepening financial mess is another wake-up call, says Scher. It has rained down home foreclosures and other calamities on Florida, slapping the slack-jawed face of a youth cohort that until now had never experienced a downturn. During the extended Florida boom of the past two decades, says Scher, "young people here grew up thinking this state was always flush, always on the upswing. Now there's a sense that something is burning here." Moller says he's seeing more Florida college seniors moving toward the Democrats as a result. "I feel like my dad did when he graduated...
...there are literally thousands of courses offered in the Faculty of Arts of Sciences alone each semester. But none of these barriers are sufficiently high or compelling enough to forestall a student’s desire to learn—they certainly don’t stop a sizable cohort of Harvard students from taking accounting...
...workforce for two years, guaranteeing them a spot at the Business School afterward.Sixty-six Harvard juniors applied to the 2+2 program, which is in its inaugural year, according to MBA admissions director Deirdre C. Leopold, and the 22 Harvard seniors who were accepted were part of an admitted cohort of 106. Almost half of the admits were from engineering or natural science backgrounds, with a large proportion of these students involved in the life sciences.The 2+2 program yielded an acceptance rate of approximately 17 percent, slightly higher than the regular admissions rate of 14 percent...
...What I am hoping is that as this cohort of girls, who are taking calculus in school, pass through the system, they will get more gender equity in the highest level research jobs in science and math," she says...
...turns passionate and sullen, angry at the world in general and grownups in particular, certain, above all, that they were uncompromised, pure. In the mid-'70s, as prosperity finally ebbed and a generalized post-Vietnam enervation set in, much of rock turned merely slick. But along came a fresh cohort of bratty youngsters convinced of their own exceptional purity, and so a dozen years after the rock-'n'-roll youthquake, punk music appeared -- crude, youthful, exuberant, sullenly anarchic, objectionable to grownups. In the late '80s, as go-go prosperity ebbed and post-Reagan enervation set in, yet another...