Search Details

Word: hub (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2010-2019
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...early December, Faust sent a letter to the Harvard community stating that the University would halt construction of the Allston Science Complex, which for years has been touted as a hub for interdisciplinary research and a cornerstone of Harvard’s future campus across the river. The decision, Faust wrote, resulted from the “altered financial landscape of the University, and the wider world...

Author: By Sofia E. Groopman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Allston Residents Forge Ahead | 1/17/2010 | See Source »

...financial hub, Hong Kong draws in tens of thousands of well-heeled Western expats as well as a modicum of Asian professionals who indulge in the fine dining and luxury malls ubiquitous in Asia's self-professed "world city." But affluent people run up against prejudice too, if they are dark-skinned. Stories of everyday discrimination are legion and often banal in their predictability: from being denied service in a bar or being unable to lease an apartment of one's choice and means. Hong Kong police practice racial profiling, routinely checking IDs of South Asians and sometimes frisking them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Racism Fighter | 1/6/2010 | See Source »

Previous | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | Next