Word: midterms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...acquisition game will no doubt carry on in the 1990s, such deals are apt to be less grandiose and more carefully wrought than the quick-buck transactions that are currently coming to grief. Says J. Ira Harris, a Chicago-based senior partner of Lazard Freres: "These are only midterm grades. The real grades arrive when you have an old-fashioned recession and see who survives." When that report card is in, more raiders are likely to flunk the game they touted so highly: survival of the fittest...
Richard C. Marius, director of the Expository Writing Program, said that the disparity is not unusual, but added that instructors hired at midterm could not be trained as thoroughly as those hired at the beginning of the year...
...like hiring midterm. We have an extensive training program in the fall that all the section leaders go through," Marius said. "Teachers hired in the middle of the year have to go through an accelerated training program...It makes their jobs tougher starting midway through the year...
Even after ten years and three election victories, Margaret Thatcher is not a beloved or even an especially liked figure in Britain. She never has been. And yet -- despite a midterm slump in the polls -- she would probably win a fourth election tomorrow, and will probably win one two or three years from now. "Although a populist," writes Young, Thatcher is "the ultimate argument against the contention that a political leader needs, in her person, to be popular." There are many explanations for Thatcher's successful unpopularity that are specific to Britain: the parliamentary system, the weakness of the opposition...
...fact, students are sometimes assigned cases that they have already studied in their past employment training. In November 1987, a case appeared on the marketing midterm exam which 22 students had previously encountered at their Bain & Co. orientation. Before selecting the case, the professor failed to make a routine check on whether Harvard had already sold copies of the case to the Boston-based firm...