Word: gatherings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...taxation policy,” Tsyvinsky said. Antras, an assistant professor who is on leave this academic year, said that the nomination and selection process took under a year. “Around May or June of last year my department told me that I was being nominated. I gather that [the nomination] follows from a consensus among senior faculty,” Antras said. Granted by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the fellowship honors researchers with “outstanding promise,” according to the foundation’s Web site. In addition to the three economists...
...HELPING THE HOMESCHOOLERS ADJUSTIt is almost midnight back in Weld 52. The scene is chaotic once again as Norberg stresses to finish a 10-page Expos paper, the room covered in papers, highlighters, and MLA style books.Slouching in his chair, dejected, Norberg is surrounded by his roommates. They gather around him, peering at the haphazard words on his computer screen.“Now I’m from South Carolina,” Scott says. “Our public education system isn’t top of the charts. I know it’s a game...
...months, Rice and other foreign ministers will gather in Beijing to assess whether both sides have lived up to their initial promises. If they have, Rice says she will meet face-to-face with her North Korean counterpart for the first time during Bush's presidency. That could set the stage for historic discussions about normalizing relations between two implacable enemies. Indeed, the Administration's rhetoric about seeking a sweeping solution to the North Korea nuclear quagmire-with regime change as one of its options-has faded. Instead, the U.S. now seems willing to take a more modest, measured approach...
Embezzlement is a plague of all nonprofit organizations, given their threadbare accounting systems. But the nation's 19,000 Catholic parishes, which gather about $6 billion a year from congregations, "are still often medieval in the way they secure or don't secure Sunday collections," says Michael Ryan, a Massachusetts Catholic and former U.S. postal inspector who runs another watchdog site, Churchsecurity.info. At St. Vincent, for example, Skehan and Guinan had immediate access to offertory cash--and according to the police report had staff hide purloined stacks of bills in parish-office ceilings. Ryan and other experts emphasize that church...
Guyatt's ideas complemented the work of the Cochrane Collaboration, an international network of researchers, physicians and others that was founded in 1993 to systematically gather and evaluate the knowledge found in medical research. The organization aggregates all published scientific studies on a particular treatment question to get a sense of the field. Then reviewers carefully consider the design of the research to determine just how strong the evidence is. One of their most famous reports was a 2005 finding based on 139 studies showing that there was "no credible evidence" that the vaccine against measles, mumps and rubella...