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Robinson said he believed the applicants were motivated by the program’s features rather than by the dearth of other jobs...
...what about the lack of female social space, the dearth of female faculty and the extent to which women undergraduates are underrepresented in the sciences? These controversies get coverage in the text, but not on the cover. Instead it’s implied that things are quite rosy today, but that the book might provide a good chuckle with its history of our “foresisters who had it way rougher than [us] back when ‘Cliffie bitch’ was a common term and Radcliffe was ‘the Annex...
Amid many laughs, two students raised their “serious” concerns about the College’s dearth of course offerings concerning Canada and its people. Others questioned Summers about the College’s strict study abroad policies...
...start of every year, film pundits and critics across the country wail about the dearth of cinematic treasures afforded by the year just ended. And 2001’s field of well-loved films, they have said, was even sparser than usual -- one of the most prominent factors muddling attempts to predict the year’s Academy Award nominations. In category after category of my predictions for this year, I’ve found a rough ratio of three educated guesses to every two generally agreed-upon nominees. On that note, here are my predictions for this year?...
...despite this medical work, the outdated and underused cyclotron faced a dearth of funding. With no scientists interested in conducting physics research at Harvard’s cyclotron, the physicists who had worked with the machine since the late 1940s held a goodbye party to mark what they thought would be its final days...