Word: flagship
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...could I? I wrote against sacred cows, such as the cult of diversity, affirmative action, conspicuous compassion and radical participatory democracy. I wrote in favor of taboo notions, such as a Promise Keepers, student apathy, honor and (most unforgivably) conservativism. Moreover, I wrote these things in the flagship publication of what not too long ago was known commonly as "Kremlin on the Charles." No, I could not have sought or expected popularity and its absence concerns...
...network news chiefs insist nothing so drastic is being contemplated just yet. Though pummeled by competition from cable, local news and the Internet, the evening-news programs still have an important function. They are the flagship broadcasts for the network news divisions, they showcase well-paid and highly respected news stars, and they still make money. Though their ratings have dropped steadily, the decline has been less steep than the slippage in network viewership overall. In the latest Nielsen ratings, ABC's World News Tonight (ranking second behind NBC's Nightly News) was watched by 7.5% of the nation...
...nationally as a baccalaureate source of male Ph.D. scientists and engineers, it is only 17th for women, according to National Science Foundation data. The absolute ranking is not important because it is dependent largely on total enrollments. But the gender differences do matter. Yale, Stanford, Brown, Cornell and several flagship state universities all graduate relatively larger proportions of future women scientists and engineers, so it can indeed be done without loss of quality. These figures are based on Ph.D.s granted between 1991 and 1995, and thus refer back to college graduates of the late 1980s, when Harvard's proportion...
Even this move, however, seems to me to be too little, too late for N e t s c a p e . Microsoft has a second advantage over its competitors: IE is well-integrated into both Windows and its flagship Office product...
Will Fox Catch the Peacock? (FBR) -- With the loss of "Seinfeld" and possible defection of "ER," NBC's Thursday night flagship is looking decidedly leaky. The FORTUNE Business Report says today that the hot tip to replace NBC as the No. 1 network is Rupert Murdoch...