Word: major
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...think this is a very major development in American religion and American theological education to have a Roman Catholic priest as head of the oldest divinity school in the country," said Cox, the Thomas Professor of Divinity. Catholics now make up 16% of the school's student body...
...Hehir--who said there is "not much" difference between his responsibilities now and his responsibilities for the past five months--said his major goals include making appointments to the open spots on the Divinity School faculty and reviewing the curriculum...
...school has a number of imminent concerns," he said. "There are a series of major appointments that need to be made in the faculty. Secondly, many people in the school have believed for a long time and I think rightly that we are in need of a curriculum review as we enter a new century...
...tough to imagine the CEO of a lean, mean operation falling for that one five years ago. It's tougher still to imagine that it would work, as a lot of CEOs apparently now do. Major businesses like Pfizer, American Express and Southwest Airlines, along with much smaller outfits, are laying out more than $55.3 billion annually--almost twice what they spent in the mid-1980s--on training. And the hottest new training device is the offsite, a company- or department-wide session away from the office. But today's offsite isn't a few meetings in a windowless hotel...
STOKING THE STORK Just as the first test-tube baby comes of age--Louise Brown turned 21 in July--there's a major advance in in-vitro fertilization. Waiting four days instead of three before transferring an embryo from the lab dish to the mother's womb can increase the odds of the implantation's success. The new technique is called blastocyst transfer...