Word: darwinian
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...between 1990 and 2007, from 2 million to 1.3 million, according to the Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). Simply put, there are fewer and fewer Japanese students to support a system that was built for heavier class loads. As a result, Japan's famously Darwinian educational environment, in which high school students crammed day and night so they could beat their peers on standardized tests and get into good universities, is fading. Instead, even average students now breeze into colleges that are becoming less selective about who fills their hallowed lecture halls...
...Merritt seemed to become more comfortable with stage banter in the second half of the show. “Valentine’s Day is in the middle of February so that anyone without a date will freeze to death,” he quipped. “How Darwinian.” His dry, somewhat misanthropic sarcasm provided a refreshing contrast to the otherwise sappy holiday. As with any indie show, tight jeans and black plastic glasses were omnipresent. In this case, however, they were worn almost entirely by older (read: post-collegiate) people. This is partially because...
...customs with flair. Our daughters like it for the candy, which now comes in quantities rivaled only by Halloween, with Tootsie Rolls taped to the cards kids hand out. I have no problem with the holiday for 8-year-olds, now that it has shed its Darwinian savagery. Children are expected to bring a valentine for every classmate, unlike the days of our youth, when the teachers would collect the cards in a big red box and then call out names one by one, in a public accounting of exactly how many friends each child actually...
...that he felt Matory’s concerns about speech on Israeli issues were justified. “The problem seems most acute around anti-Israel positions,” Caton said. “Free speech cannot be only for the toughest skin—a sort of Darwinian struggle for the loudest and vituperative.” Some professors cautioned against voting down a motion with a seemingly noncontroversial message. “All of this is what the French might call an exercise in drowning a fish,” French historian Stanley Hoffmann said...
...managers in October that a "super-league" of funds is slowly taking control of the industry. In 2006, 67% of all assets under management were controlled by this élite group of the top 100 funds, compared with 49% in 2003. "We think there's going to be a Darwinian process, a sorting out of those who are actually producing a respectable performance and those who are not," says Giles Conway-Gordon, managing partner of San Francisco-based Cogo Wolf Asset Management, an investment manager for wealthy individuals. He predicts that investors could withdraw as much as $500 billion from...