Word: rigor
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...summer schedule could actually be a very good thing. I won't have to readjust to the academic rigor; I will downshift a notch. I won't be worried about wasting my summer away; I will have enhanced my job prospects for next summer. I won't be worried about finances next year; I will be set. Hmmm. Momentum, resume-building and money. Maybe I'm not so insane after...
Wilson "brings that scientific rigor to her endeavors," Clendenning says. "I suspect she is a superlative chess player, because she is very analytical and thoughtful--she focuses on the problem at hand...
...couple of corrections every day. We put in more checkpoints than professional papers, because we have to." But too many small errors are adding up to big doubts about the credibility of the newspaper. And credibility is the biggest asset a newspaper can have. If a little more rigor, and perhaps even more checkpoints in editorial and reporting policies, will reassure readers about the accuracy, integrity and sound judgement of what they read every morning, it will be a step well worth taking...
...regular action candidates. They are admitted because the Admissions Committee, with many years of collective experience to draw upon, is convinced that each is 100 percent certain to be admitted when compared to the full slate of candidates who will be considered in the spring. Yearly variations in the rigor of the admissions competition here are relatively small and the Committee will defer a candidate if there is any doubt. Further, evidence of the high standard set for early admission is the fact that a considerable number of candidates deferred in Early Action are admitted in the spring. Last year...
...interpreted as another sortie in the war between C.P. Snow's "the two cultures"--the hard sciences sniping from one side of the trenches, the humanities and social sciences from the other. In reality, however, Holub has no desire to accuse the humanities of some inherent lack of rigor. Rather, his goal is to expose the dangers of ideology masquerading as knowledge, whether it takes the form of Marxism-Leninism or politically correct dogma...