Word: portions
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These people weren’t anomalies. Though the lecture, delivered by a professor ranked 4.3 in the CUE Guide, was a fairly interesting one, a good portion of the class looked up from their various screens only when a phrase was prefaced with the warning, “This might be on the midterm.” It looked like in this class, at least in this lecture, intellectualism was dead. But I don’t blame the people—I blame the technology...
...weekly hours for men. While these "microdifferences" are not significant week to week, the report finds, over time they may add up to a "major inequity." Unfortunately, prioritizing student contact rarely leads to getting promoted. One respondent, a female professor at a public university, warned in the free-response portion of the survey of the pitfalls of getting too invested in service work. "You can get sucked totally into life-changing amounts of time," she wrote, "for which some of your colleagues are not planning to reward...
...business, server, and PC software for years. The company's products are too ubiquitous and too well-designed to be easily replaced. Microsoft will have competition, but that competition will not transform the software industry overnight because Microsoft's products are the glue that holds together a very large portion of the technology used by businesses and consumers around the world. (Read a 24/7 Wall St. story on Microsoft...
...Economics professor Lawrence F. Katz said yesterday that although there is currently an informal rule for professors to voluntarily retire at the age of 70, that may change in the current economic climate in which many have lost a substantial portion of their retirement savings...
...Cold Blood,” Ross employs jazz trumpets and orchestral sounds, as he proclaims, “God wanna see you niggas in the Bentley!” These bookends provide memorable first and last impressions, as they encapsulate the MTV-ready middle portion of the album.Regardless, very little about “Deeper than Rap” conveys any sense of lyrical or compositional originality. From the recycled analogies and familiar “hip-pop” melodies to the clichéd Scarface-esque album cover, “Deeper than Rap” does...