Word: rigor
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...Lisa is a natural in the academic world, achieving the impossible with power, control, rigor and real style,” Tatar said...
...larger purpose here is not to celebrate or bemoan this trend of decreasing academic rigor. In fact, one could argue that it isn’t even a trend—Henry Adams, Class of 1858, famously wrote that “four years of Harvard College, if successful, result[s] in an autobiographical blank, a mind on which only a water-mark ha[s] been stamped.” Setting aside this rather hackneyed issue regarding the worth and rigor of a Harvard education, I am far more intrigued by a potentially deleterious effect such a lack of academic...
...Airbus), is feeling more and more like Goliath to Embraer's David. Under new CEO Paul Tellier, a proven cost cutter, Bombardier Inc., the parent company of Bombardier Aerospace, is paring down its operations to become nimbler and more focused on its core businesses, making trains and planes. "Rigor and consolidation are the order of the day," Tellier said recently, as he announced plans to raise $1 billion by selling Bombardier's recreational-products division, which makes popular Sea-Doo watercraft and Ski-Doo snowmobiles. "We have taken the measures to ensure we will be ready when the business...
Mederos attested to the rigor and sacrifice—but ultimate satisfaction—that training required...
...works in my life because it’s in balance with the academic rigor of school,” he says. “If I became a professional musician, I would, in many ways, have no escape, and I’d think I’d grow to resent music...