Word: depth
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...things need to be done. First, Lewis needs to reconsider his decision. Take it to the Corporation. Maybe then its members will realize the depth of concern about women's issues on campus. Second, as Lewis rightly suggests in his memo, a "small working group of students and members of the College administration" should be appointed "to discuss gender issues that are of concern." We can think of a few off the bat, such as the small number of female tenured professors and female undergraduates in high positions in student organizations...
According to Abernathy, some faculty members feel the concentration does not meet Harvard's standards for in-depth study into a field...
LEON JAROFF has covered science and medicine since the 1950s for both TIME and LIFE magazines, so he is well aware of the problem of prostate cancer. But it wasn't until a friend developed the malignancy and he started to research the disease in depth that Jaroff learned it is reaching epidemic proportions in the U.S. To help prepare for this week's cover, he traveled to Santa Monica, California, for a three-hour interview with former junk-bond wizard Michael Milken, whose disease was diagnosed in 1993 and who has pledged $25 million for prostate-cancer research...
...some thought him a "sicko" and "a loner," no one could have foreseen the depth of evil in their midst. At the local morgue, hospital chaplain Jim Benson comforted parents as they identified their children. But no words, no memorials or visits by the Queen will make it easier for a parent to comprehend that a son, a daughter is never going to wake again. After one mother looked at her dead child, she turned to Benson and said, "My baby always sleeps like that...
...build machines that think. Ten years ago, when AI was as hot as the Internet is today, researchers raced to build programs that showed deep expertise in a narrow field of endeavor--like chess, for example, or medical diagnosis. These days, however, it's the promise of breadth, not depth, that inspires the artificial intelligentsia--and drives the programs that come closest to what the rest of us might regard as thinking...