Word: placement
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...mirror, Perkin-Elmer used an optics template, a tubular array of smaller mirrors and lenses linked by connecting rods, to guide the grinding and polishing processes. When the Allen committee tested this template assembly, it found that there was a critical error of 1.3 mm (0.05 in.) in the placement of the template's components. The Hubble mirror was carefully fashioned to match exactly this error in the template...
...impressive because staging conditions are spotty. In Baltimore, for example, the newly poured ice was thin and brittle: in rehearsal, Boitano's skates broke through to the concrete beneath. The length and configuration of the ice vary from show to show, as do locations of entrances and exits and placement of key lighting elements...
...masters, my wife and I have now completed a series of discussions with representatives from all the different constituencies within Dudley House," Hanson said. Based on these discussions, Hanson said that immediate placement into the residential houses would be "in the best interest of transfer students...
...have also enrolled 90 of the 317 students who participated in the Research Science Institute of the Center for Excellence in Education in McLean, Virginia. Of this year's six National Advanced Placement Scholars, four chose Harvard and Radcliffe. Harvard undergraduates have won the Putnam Mathematics Competition for the fifth straight year. Harvard and Radcliffe students this year received 17 Rotary Scholarships; five Fulbright Scholarships; four Marshall Scholarships; and three Rhodes Scholarships. Harder to quantify is the remarkable rate of admission to first-rate graduate and professional schools achieved by Harvard and Radcliffe students...
According to a salary survey released this fall by the College Placement Council, average starting salary offers for graduates in the fields of economics and finance rose only 1.9 percent last year...