Word: premiere
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These characteristics are what--six months after her death--lead some to suppose that Bunting-Smith would be understanding and perhaps even supportive of current negotiations to end Radcliffe's status as an undergraduate college and refocus its objective toward becoming a premier women's research facility...
When she takes the podium tomorrow at Harvard Medical School's Class Day, First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton will have an important task at hand. She has the rare opportunity to convince members of the next generation of premier doctors that health care reform is inherently linked to children's welfare...
...urging of the national tourism association, staged a demonstration at Seoul's Kimpo International Airport asking passengers not to fly abroad. Even in Singapore, where the number of inbound business visitors increased nearly 9% in 1997, business-oriented hotel-occupancy rates have dropped, and the city-state's premier Suntec convention center is experiencing 15% to 18% fewer visitors and exhibitors than previously. "People are coming to troubleshoot," says Renton de Alwis, head of the National Association of Travel Agents Singapore. But clearly, they aren't staying long enough to help the ailing tourism industry...
...alumnae (whose lives as such are much longer than a short four student years)--are vastly greater and more complex than a description of "silly squabbling," of petty sibling bickering, would make them seem. These stakes trace directly back to Harvard's diehard historic image as America's premier gentlemen's club; to Harvard's increasing neglect of undergraduate life and instruction as its professional graduate schools have become even more gargantuan pots and magnets for both private and governmental funding and attention; and above all to Harvard's special connection not to liberal arts education, but to prestige, power...
...Harvard is a premier training ground for thenext generation of scholars," she said. "We needto maintain that, and in some programs, we need torecover that...