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...think there are 25 votes in the UnitedStates Senate for the budget," said Sen. BillBradley (D-N.J.). And Rep. Les Aspin (D-Wis.),chairman of the House Armed Services Committee,called it "DBA--dead before arrival...
...qualifications required of a Business School professor, including a Doctorate in Business Administration or a Ph.D., require over six years of post-graduate training. Ten years ago few women sought the type of degree that would prepare them for faculty positions -only 29 women have graduated from the Harvard DBA program in the 13 years it has been open to them. A similar situation exists at other schools, providing the Business School with a very limited pool of future faculty members...
...qualified applicants, the administration now feels a responsibility to train women for faculty positions. The success of this strategy, which demands active recruitment of women at the lower levels, clearly depends upon a sincere and long-term commitment. The increasing number and quality of female applicants to the DBA program over the past five years demonstrates the talent potentially available to the administration. This year seven of the 14 students registering in the DBA program were women. Karen E. Gell, the program's assistant director, attributed the dramatic increase in qualified female applicants to an increasing number of women MBAs...
...best documented and most tangible adverse effect of environmental noise upon human activity is speech interference. Noise levels below 60 dBA interfere very little with conversational interference occurs above 70 dBA. In the community around the Library site, existing outdoor day-time 10-percentile noise levels range 51-78 dBA, depending on location and day of the week. The 10 percentile daytime noise levels for 17 sampling locations averaged 71 dBA during weekday peak traffic hours, and 67 dBA on Sunday afternoons. Thus the area is already fairly noisy...
...projected Library-related traffic is expected to increase the afore-mentioned average noise levels in the peak year of visitation to 72 dBA during weekday peak hours and 71 dBA on Sunday afternoons. These noise increases of 1-4 dBA are hardly significant but must be considered in the context that noise levels are already high enough (above 70 dBA) to cause significant interference with conversational speech in many outdoor areas...