Word: core
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...chairman of the Undergraduate Council's Academics Committee also said at a CUE meeting yesterday that he also hopes to reinvigorate student-faculty department committees, to try to increase student input in the tenure process, and to establish separate sections in Core courses for concentrators and non-concentrators...
...fact that Harvard does not teach its history concentrators social theory. The school's educational philosophy, as embodied in the Core Curriculum, is meant to teach modes of inquiry as opposed to a set body of knowledge. But in the History department, one aspect of historical inquiry--its theoretical basis--is left a mystery...
...fact remains, the most reliable strategy of riding the crests and troughs of baseball is nurturing a steady core of ballplayers over the years, making well-placed trades when the opportunities arise, and surrounding the core with role players who know what is expected of them and don't have the threat of minor-league ball hanging over them...
...Goiania victims in most serious condition, including Leide, were flown to a naval hospital in Rio de Janeiro. There they are being treated by a core team of eight radiation specialists, including one from the U.S. and another from the Soviet Union. Bone-marrow transplants, which were conducted on Chernobyl survivors, are not being considered. Radiation can destroy the vital marrow, which produces among other things the white blood cells that help the body guard against infection, but some of the Goiania victims are so radioactive that new bone marrow would simply become contaminated. All patients are undergoing frequent decontamination...
...drug addiction. It also hosts 116 researchers from about 40 institutions all over the world, and gives them technical help with primate experiments. Outside researchers' work is funded by grants for their specific projects, while the upkeep of the center itself is paid for by a separate multimillion-dollar "core funding" grant from the National Institutes of Health...