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YWAM was founded in 1960, primarily to train and promote short-term missionary work by evangelical young people. It boasts a staff of 16,000 people in 149 countries, and its local offices have considerable autonomy. It is well respected in the larger general evangelical world for taking on one of its most necessary tasks: making sure that the thousands of teenagers and twentysomethings flooding into developing nations to do missionary work have at least some grounding before they depart. Notes Moreau, YWAM is "lean, it's nimble, creative, and there's very little hierarchical control." It has dealt with...
...pattern is believed to be particularly prevalent at research universities, like Harvard, Curtis said that specific data on courses taught primarily by graduate students is not yet available. In addition to graduate students, Harvard’s FAS employs 325 lecturers and preceptors throughout its departments. Employing faculty with short-term contracts allows universities to more easily change teachers and the courses offered to meet their needs, Casey said. “Most of our non-tenured positions are brought in to support upper faculty and to enrich and deepen course offerings,” he said. Curtis said...
...Short-term retail optimism brings no cheer, though, to the economy's wise men, who talk mainly of an imminent downturn. "The odds now favor a U.S. recession," writes former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers in a newspaper column. "I'd put the number at about a 75% chance," says investing guru Jack Bogle on TV. "We are becoming more certain that the recession is either here or no more than two quarters away," warns Merrill Lynch economist David Rosenberg in a note to clients...
...This study proves that achieving changes in memory will likely require long-term interventions, rather than short-term fixes,” said Francine Grodstein, the leading researcher of the study and an associate professor at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH...
...environmental movement, embracing Jones' message means recasting global warming not just as an existential threat but as an enormous economic opportunity. It's a narrative that is particularly resonant with low-income workers who are likely to bear the short-term economic burden of cutting carbon only if they believe there will be a personal payoff for them in the long run. Says Jones: "They need to see green in their pockets...