Word: purposeã
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...that: an industry. That is to say, it competes to sell a product, turn a profit, and do it all over again the next day. The major news networks—and they are “networks” in the sense of being synchronized for the same purpose??have become giant businesses. As a result, those of us who revel in knowledge are blessed with a deluge of it: 24-hour news channels, e-mail updates, and news websites with handheld access...
...only way you could say that it happened on purpose??and I’m not saying that—was if you saw the same thing happening over and over again," he said at the time...
...gawking did serve a charitable purpose??a portion of the proceeds from every Lobsters match goes to Tenacity, a tennis and academic enrichment program for urban children...
...path of credentialism. The second key reform of the Education Policy Committee was to delay concentration choice until the end of the first semester of sophomore year. But this would be inherently disadvantageous to concentrations in the sciences, especially engineering—and would not have served their ostensible purpose??to allow students to make more informed decisions. (These two reforms, alas, are the only two that the Faculty of Arts and Sciences has approved.) The January Term reforms sought to create a period between the first and the second semester that would allow for students to pursue...
...success of honor codes at large universities, like the University of Virginia.Melendez’s report also cited diversity as a potential barrier to the success of an honor code.“An honor-code community must share a ‘matrix of common belief and purpose?? that underlies the code, and a homogeneous community is likelier to reach a broader agreement about this matrix,” Melendez wrote in his 1985 study.But David L. Tannenwald ’08, a transfer student from Brown University, strongly disagreed with the notion that diversity presents...