Word: modell
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...Certainly our endowment investment model was successful for quite some time,” Rothenberg said to the Gazette. “But I think, yes, there are some changes already under way to increase flexibility, reduce leverage, and better position [Harvard’s] portfolio for the future...
...country right now thinks that health care is a disaster,” she said. “We at Project HEALTH believe that things can be different. Project HEALTH’s model is simple, it’s effective, and it’s cheap...
...scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration feared the worst. For years they had been warning the Army Corps of Engineers, which oversaw the city's 350 miles of levees, that its system was inadequate. The scientists wanted the Corps to revise the Standard Project Hurricane, a model that determines how extensive the levees should be. For instance, the Corps did not consider the tendency of soil to sink over time, and it excluded the possibility of a highly powerful storm hitting the city because that was unlikely, which violates sophisticated principles of statistics and just plain common sense...
...presidents are forward-looking entrepreneurs of education. At the center of the package is a profile of Ohio State University president E. Gordon Gee by editor-at-large David Von Drehle, who rode along with the irrepressible Gee on a barnstorming tour of small Ohio towns. Gee is the model of what we were looking for. "University presidents," he says, "must be involved in the great questions of our times." To come up with this year's dean's list, we talked to a broad cross section of education experts, including other college presidents, and from their recommendations we selected...
Lueth recently won an $800,000 grant from the Department of Education to develop a teaching model for immersion middle schools, and she advises educators around the country who are starting their own programs. If Yinghua can make Mandarin a success in Minnesota, she tells them, so can they. "This is a glorious culture - and an increasingly important language - that we are meaningfully teaching to our children," she says. "And we're in the middle of nowhere...