Word: scholarships
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Recently, however, a new body of scholarship has attempted to show that unions actually improve productivity. But Leo Troy, an economist at Rutgers, attributes these increases in productivity to management's tendency to use non-labor resources more efficiently to counteract artificial union wage increases...
...better-paying experiments listed publicly ask for specific types of people, making the bulletin board read like some kind of scholarship book from a high school guidance office. Here are some recent examples...
Harvard's endorsement committee, which includes faculty members and Jewett, recommends Rhodes Scholarship applicants on the basis of their grade point average (GPA), plan of study and extracurricular activities. Applicants must attain a GPA of 13 on Harvard's 15-point scale, or petition for endorsement on the basis of other merit...
...scholarship and the aca demic side is being emphasized more and more," Bohlman said of the 1989 changes. "The endorsement committee tries to pick the very best and look for positive reasons to endorse them...
Endorsement percentages for the other major scholarship for study in England, the Marshall Scholarship, have remained relatively consistent because of an absolute restriction requiring a minimum GPA of 13.8, with no exceptions allowed, according to Bohlman