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...Summer school is an eight-week program, not a four year program," Queen said. "So our long-term commitment is significantly less. There's not that much at stake for the student, so asking a student to leave is not as momentous a decision...
Neither New Hope nor the Education & Assistance Corp., a nonprofit agency that runs the anger-management classes for New York City, has data on whether its programs work. New Hope has just launched an after-care session for graduates of its eight-week course, since the company usually loses touch with them. And the New York agency, whose classes have more students than most but run just six hours, plans to begin collecting recidivism figures this year...
...Athens, but it was new to the computer industry in 1983, when Michael Dell started selling hand-built PCs out of his dormitory room at the University of Texas. As it grew into a giant, Dell Computer insisted on keeping only a six-day inventory, vs. a six- to eight-week supply for most of its competitors. That not only lowered costs but also gave Dell the ability to turn on a technological dime--a vital capability in an industry in which hot new products may become obsolete well before supplies can be cleared out of the inventory pipeline...
William Franklin Graham Jr., known to all the world as Billy, is now 80 years old, and has been our leading religious revivalist for almost exactly 50 years, ever since his eight-week triumph in Los Angeles in the autumn of 1949. Indeed, for at least 40 years, Graham has been the Pope of Protestant America (if Protestant is still the right word). Graham's finest moment may have been when he appeared at President Bush's side, Bible in hand, as we commenced our war against Iraq in 1991. The great revivalist's presence symbolized that the gulf crusade...
Besides mentoring graduate students, Sorensenteaches an eight-week course once a year...