Word: research
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Conrad announces, to the team's surprise, that it is his 31st birthday today. To celebrate, he and Wang hold a meeting to discuss the results of survey research his sub-team has been conducting. Conrad is anxious about making his volumes of data relevant for the old-school client. Wang has been brought in to support Conrad's efforts by applying the fancy Excel tricks she has recently learned. Conrad is visibly relieved to have someone to bounce ideas off of and he insists that I call Wang "Powerhouse," a nickname she has earned for her ability to absorb...
...analyst's job is all about research, and we quickly settle into the morning routine. The high-tech world at the end of the millennium is a vast free-for-all, with companies scrambling to acquire one another and grow exponentially. Shemmer's job is to sift through thousands of unknown firms and select likely acquisitions for his client, a software company. The client is looking to expand its operations in the Northeast and Shemmer wants to present them with as broad a menu as possible...
...lunch tables disperse quickly--everyone's too busy to hang around--and Shemmer heads back to the same Web research he did this morning. I wander around the office to see what the other analysts do. I spend time with one employee who specializes in writing fairness opinions--reports outlining for shareholders whether they're getting a fair deal in a merger. The number crunching and boilerplate legal writing seem dull, but it's still a high-wire act--shareholders who feel cheated can sue Broadview. "It's a pretty amazing responsibility for someone my age," the analyst says...
...archeological excavation determined the bones deposits were remains from research performed during one of the chapel's other notable incarnations: the original home of the Harvard Medical School...
...issue of whether the HIV virus made the jump to humans via a vaccine, a direct blood infection from a monkey bite or any of the other hypotheses is of little scientific utility, and this area of inquiry is unlikely to draw research resources away from the more pressing search for a vaccine and a cure. But just as we're not satisfied with perennially checking the "don't know" box in explaining an air crash, we're burdened, as a culture, to find an explanation for a phenomenon that has killed 16 million people - and has infected 33 million...