Word: northwestern
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...Waite is not a man who is easily deterred from a goal. While Waite was growing up in the northwestern English village of Styal, his father, a policeman, frequently exhorted, "If you start something, see it through to the finish." Waite has toyed from time to time with the idea of being ordained, but so far he has decided to remain a layman. Nonetheless, his career has almost always been in church affairs. After studying theology at London's Church Army College, he worked as a lay training adviser to the Anglican Bishop of Bristol. In 1968 he headed...
...Cardinal's 2-3-4-5 finish pushed it to the top of the heap with 24 points, compared to 45 for Northwestern, 67 for Rice and 95 for Harvard...
Stanford and Rice battled it out for the team title, with the Cardinal (41 points) emerging victorious. Rice (43) finished second, followed by Northwestern (55) and Harvard...
...Harvard men's and women's cross country teams hosted the annual, season-opening "Meeting of the Minds"--a four-way meet featuring runners from Stanford, Northwestern and Rice...
...business school too has been grappling with some troubles, though nothing quite so anguishing as the law school's. A 1985 poll of 134 national companies measuring employer satisfaction with M.B.A.s dropped the business school from its longtime rating of national leadership to third place, behind Northwestern's Kellogg School and the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School. One shortcoming that some critics perceive: although business-school alumni still rate first in management skills, they may not be on the cutting edge of economic and market theory. Bok seems to have agreed with this assessment. In a 1979 report...