Word: lowered
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
When instructors receive marks lower than 2.8on the student questionnaires compiled by theCommittee on Undergraduate Education (CUE Guide),they have to take remedial teaching classes. If aninstructor dips below 2.8 more than once, he orshe can no longer teach...
Being anti-Starbuck's does not make me anti-proletariat. (Starbuck's, like many chains, is hardly aimed at the lower classes!) It simply means I want to be able to choose from a variety of cafes when I go out, and I want to support local business owners. REBECCA REIDER '00 March...
...Government, and this kind of secrecy crosses the line from practical into absurd. It seems clear that junior faculty, like everyone else, are under-informed about the tenure process. While internal hiring has increased in recent years, it varies widely by department and remains across the board much lower than at other universities. Rather than raise up star faculty from within its ranks, Harvard has fallen prey to the trend in academia toward seeking out what some have called "academostars," cutting-edge scholars who are more or less auctioned off to the highest bidding institutions. In the meantime, Harvard...
...silent crowds gaping in stunned apprehension, President Herbert Hoover was still clinging to the deeply held--and widely shared--belief that good old rugged individualism, with just a dash of government help (nothing so radical as a federal dole), would dispel the gathering Depression. But the economy only spiraled lower. By 1933 unemployment had hit 25%; people were foraging in garbage dumps for food; outside almost every large city, shantytowns, known as "Hoovervilles," drew the newly homeless. On the eve of F.D.R.'s Inauguration, panicky runs on banks threatened to bring down the entire financial system...
...terrain, says Doug Morton of the U.S. Geological Survey in Riverside, Calif., it can very quickly add up to disaster. Imagine living on the edge of a steep, quivering pile of chocolate pudding. "Mother Nature doesn't like steep slopes," says Morton, "and she does what she can to lower them...