Word: cusp
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...department was generally supportive of her proposal for the course, which examines education since the colonial era from all angles, including within families and religious institutions. Other universities are starting to expand offerings on education in their curricula, according to Peterson. “We are just on the cusp of treating education as a significant topic at colleges and universities because something that includes 50 million students, Hundreds of thousands of employees, and billions and billions of dollars, is too important to be left off the academic agenda much longer,” Peterson said. Peterson previously taught...
...calls the performance of the federal government “absolutely, outrageously flawed,” Horne says he still believes in the future of New Orleans. With tax credits and federal aid now pouring into the city, Horne says, “New Orleans could be on the cusp of another boom.”Horne, who was a member of The Advocate at Harvard, says his time at Harvard prepared him for the challenges of Katrina because the civil unrest of the late sixties prepared him for “reporting on anarchy, chaos, disintegration, and failures...
...society seems to believe.But scientists would not agree with the public’s estimation, and they would be right not to: Our society’s conception of the scientist is warped beyond any resemblance to reality. Sitting at a lab bench in Boston, on the gray cusp between layperson and scientist, I’ve had a rare opportunity to see scientists from within as well as without. This past January, BBC.com ran a story headlined “Science ‘not for normal people,’” which cited research that aimed...
...India does possess one indispensable asset, which has sustained its democracy and catapulted it to the cusp of global power: the ingenuity of its citizens. And nowhere is it in greater supply than in Bombay. "Things just happen here," says Sanjay Bhandarkar, managing director of investment bank Rothschild's India. "Because people have to make things work themselves." The rise of China has been the product of methodical state planning, but India's is all about private hustle, a trait that Americans can appreciate. Rakesh Jhunjhunwala, a billionaire trader in Bombay, says initiative represents Bombay's--and India's--advantage...
...both schools in 1952 and a successful fundraising drive at Princeton during the 1953-54 academic year, according to the Crimson article.The red ink was particularly problematic for Yale’s goals of raising faculty salaries and increasing scholarship funding.As the Class of 1956 was on the cusp of graduation, Harvard was well on its way to vast financial growth. Nonetheless, the University had to deal with some of the same economic problems as the rest of post-war America, such as large increases in the cost of living, according to Keller. He says these economic changes made...