Word: major
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...with most major Harvard appointments, the University president ultimately decides who will be the master of each of the College's residential domains...
...writer friend named Gloria Bley Miller, recalling what it was like to grow up in a big family in a little house with no indoor plumbing; to pick cotton; to live in "jivey" 1940s Harlem. Miller edited the reminiscences, and Baxter's unique voice so impressed editors at a major publishing house, Alfred A. Knopf, that next month it will bring out her exuberant memoirs, The Seventh Child: A Lucky Life. "I'm the seventh child, so I know I'm lucky," says Baxter. And what better proof than Knopf's literary stamp of approval? That in itself...
...year and lost $114 million (it has pulled in $20 million in the first two months of this year), but the stock, priced at $16, was bid up to $80 by week's end. That puts the company's value at around $11 billion, worth more than a few major airlines combined...
That may not be well enough to handle Duval, a quiet man given the nickname "Rock" who rolls into Augusta, Ga., having recently won a minor major, The Players Championship, against a tougher field than he'll face at Augusta. That victory punctuated an altogether astonishing 18-month run of golf. Late in the season of Tigermania, Duval won his first-ever PGA tournament. He won the next week too, and then the next. "We knew [that] once David got going, he'd win a bunch," Davis Love III said last week. "But we never expected a roll like this...
...each year by states trying to document child-support or welfare payments, folks with paternity issues rarely have the wherewithal to order up a test on their own. About five years ago, however, that started to change. It was then that Caroline Caskey, 32, a French-literature major turned business student, thought to combine cutting-edge DNA analysis with old-fashioned, hawk-the-product marketing. A few years earlier, a lab headed by her father Thomas Caskey patented something called the "short tandem repeat," a shortcut method of sampling DNA. Caskey saw the new technique for the cash...