Word: fallen
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Drugs like Prozac and Paxil have taken their lumps lately, but a study shows that U.S. suicides have fallen 15% since they were introduced. Biggest cause of suicide? Untreated depression...
...percentage of Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) tenure offers going to female scholars has fallen since Summers took office as Harvard’s president—from 36 percent in 2000-2001 to 13 percent last year. Summers had pledged to reverse the downward trend in female tenure offers even before he drew fire for his suggestion last month that “innate differences” between the sexes could help to explain the lack of female scientists at elite institutions...
...taxes, and get the hell out of Bosnia has found his passion in world affairs, arguably more so than his U.N. Ambassador dad. All the energy was in the back half of the speech-the foreign policy section-and not just because of the electric moment of a fallen soldier's mother hugging a first-time Iraqi voter...
...also a mistake to assume that you can't get ahead with stocks as they tread water. For one thing, dividends are on the rise; S&P 500 firms will pay out $200 billion this year, up 10%. And over the past five years, as stocks have fallen and then begun to recover, investors who put a steady $100 a month into the S&P 500 would have seen their total investment of $6,000 grow to about $6,800, although the market fell 11%, including dividends (see chart...
...issue was simmering even before Jan. 14. Since Summers, 50, arrived, in 2001, the percentage of tenure offers at Harvard in the arts and sciences that go to women has fallen from 37% to 11%. Part of the problem, a group of female professors told Summers in a letter last fall, is that his focus on hiring "rising young scholars" slights women, whose "research careers tend to peak a bit later than men's careers" because of family responsibilities. Many at Harvard were upset last spring when Summers rejected a tenure recommendation for Marcyliena Morgan, a scholar...