Word: mastering
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...officers of the Harvard chapter notified 96 seniors of their eligibility for induction in mid-October. The initial group was chosen based on grades, difficulty of class work, and intellectual experience, according to chapter president and Leverett House Master Howard Georgi...
...tangible change. In addition to renovated house kitchens, he believes there’s a need for a formalized food studies program on campus with courses that explore the culinary arts academically and practically. THE LIBERAL CULINARY ARTSA few food studies programs already exist around the world, including a Master of Liberal Arts in Gastronomy at Boston University and an undergraduate, graduate, and doctorate program in Food Studies at NYU. Though Harvard does not have a formalized food studies program, students can study food laterally through various departments, from Anthropology to Human and Evolutionary Biology. Francesca T. Gilberti...
...Three Blew It Of all Detroit's failures - the failure to master small cars, failure to cut costs, failure to get tough with the UAW, failure to improve fuel efficiency - the failure to learn, says MacDuffie, is perhaps its worst...
...obviously complicit in the industry's deterioration, just as it was guilty of creating an unparalleled manufacturing system decades earlier. The Detroit approach has been plan-command-control, stemming from that original control freak, Henry Ford. At GM, a management hierarchy that had been created by GM's master planner, Alfred P. Sloan, in the '20s - GM's first and most successful restructuring - was still functioning in the '80s. Management's job was to create the products, design the production system and provide solutions if there were problems. Everyone else followed orders...
...River" as he darns his socks. Much of his mischief and provokingness he got from his Caribbean origins, he acknowledges; and to see the calypso Naipaul before he began taking snuff from a silver spoon is to see a much more human and endearing figure than the master usually admits...