Word: memorandum
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Pedersen will circulate a memorandum about issues potential first-year seminar changes would raise. The matter will be discussed in greater length at next month's Faculty meeting...
...spread disease and death through the Yanomami. "This nightmarish story [is] a real anthropological heart of darkness beyond the imagining of even a Joseph Conrad (though not, perhaps, a Josef Mengele)," warned two professors, Cornell University's Terence Turner and the University of Hawaii's Leslie Sponsel, in a memorandum to the American Anthropological Association...
...Norton, which will publish Tierney's book in mid-November, sent galleys to Turner and Sponsel, and when their memorandum began zipping around the Internet, a vituperative debate exploded. Last week the story broke in the Chronicle of Higher Education. Turner and Sponsel not only found Tierney's research credible but warned that "the impending scandal...in its scale, ramifications, and sheer criminality and corruption is unparalleled in the history of anthropology." In a controversial extrapolation, they suggested a motive for spreading the measles epidemic: if deliberately ignited, it may have been to prove Neel's "fascistic eugenics" theories--that...
...amounted to nothing. But they were much faster to take advantage of the possibilities of high tech, and the Frankfurt market has turned itself into Europe's NASDAQ - the center of the continent's burgeoning technology investment sector." NASDAQ appears to have recognized that reality, too, by signing a memorandum of understanding with the new iX company to refrain from opening a competitor and to allow the trading of share flotations...
...Heard: “In all honesty, I simply was not pleased with the program’s offerings and opportunities for advancement...Indeed, that’s an important point—let me check my notes. Yes, I believe that was quoted in the committee memorandum last semester...Would you like some more coffee...