Word: rigorousness
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However, Schor has not only been an exemplary academic, she has been a beloved educator as well. Renown for her popular courses such as "Shop 'Til You Drop: Women and Gender in Consumer Society," Schor exemplifies that rare mix of intellectual rigor and concern for students that so many Harvard professors lack. The University will be hard pressed to find a professor as talented or dedicated to fill her roles...
...consist of artificially composed interiors and landscapes. Pursuing beauty, in Twice Born terms, involves an incredible attention to arrangement and an absence (premeditated?) of the human form. The paintings seem prompted by an experimental fascination with shape, line, material and color. There is a prevailing sense of aggression and rigor in the creation of the "beautiful...
...theory, at least, the consumer should be the one who benefits from competition, but in fact, the entire system benefits," says Giuseppe Tesauro, president of the Authority and the man behind its newfound rigor. "Competition is democracy in economic relations. The very companies that do things to block competition end up hurting themselves...
...presses Bush to delve into the fine print of his own proposals--for instance, how he plans to pay the estimated $1 trillion it will cost to reshape Social Security into a system that will let Americans invest part of their premiums. Gore's people believe Bush has the rigor and tight message to get through the first two answers but that his riff will begin to sound thin in the back-and-forth. Here too they hope to get to what they see as the point of their endeavor: raising doubts about whether Bush has the weight...
...when he presses Bush to delve into the fine print of his own proposals - like how he plans to pay the estimated $1 trillion it will cost to reshape Social Security into a system where Americans can invest part of their premiums. Gore's team believes Bush has the rigor and tight message to get through the first two answers, but that his riff will begin to sound thin in the back and forth. Here too they hope to get to what they see as the greatest point of their endeavor: raising doubts about whether Bush has the weight...