Word: hubs
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...fellows of the Harvard Corporation, the University’s executive governing body. She has been widely praised for her strong interpersonal skills and familiarity with Harvard’s schools, and for skillfully transforming Radcliffe from a beloved women’s college into a sought-after hub of academic fellowships...
Faust made her first public comments as president-elect at a 4 p.m. news conference at the historic Barker Center, the University's humanities hub. "I'm not the woman president of Harvard," Faust said, with a bust of John Harvard looming over her. "I'm the president of Harvard...
...move to outsource government, begun under Ronald Reagan and accelerated during the Clinton years, has been a spectacular boon to northern Virginia. The once green region offered land, few restrictions on business and a transport hub in Dulles International Airport. The presence of the Pentagon, that greatest of cash-spewing economic-development engines, was the clincher...
...that we could have never realized in the few scattered basement offices of the Yard.” But McLoughlin conceded that it will take a long time before SOCH (pronounced variously as “soak” and “soatch”) becomes the student hub it was designed to be. “I’m willing to give the SOCH three to four years to reach its potential,” he wrote. In the meantime, SOCH administrators have embarked on a campaign to woo students to the center by distributing coupons...
...involved in making associations and forming connections with people or things. (By comparison, over 50% of last year 's Super Bowl ads activated these regions.) The majority of this year 's commercials, on the other hand, predominantly activated anxiety regions of the brain, centered around the amygdala, the hub of our fear and emotional responses. "To me, that means these ads are going to be unsuccessful," says Freedman. "This group of ads as a whole had a violence associated with them that didn 't connect with people as being humorous or harmless. Something about them made people not feel that...