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Such efforts aim to "shorten the time to [the] Ph.D. degree" of graduate students, as well as lure quality junior faculty to Harvard, the report says...
...workers said a recent decision to shorten employee breaks from a half hour to 15 minutes was indicative of management's uncaring attitude towards its workers...
With all these problems, UHS needed dramatic changes. But how much change could it afford? It couldn't hire more doctors and nurses to shorten the first-floor lines. It couldn't move into a bigger building to solve the space crunch. It couldn't computerize its record system without incurring the kind of huge costs that the University would no longer tolerate...
...emphatically not designed by handlers. Clinton himself, powerfully aided by his wife Hillary, is the source of the message and the big-picture strategy. He employs speechwriters but rewrites the speeches heavily. So much so that despite the best efforts of the original drafters to shorten his acceptance speech to the July convention, it still took 55 minutes to deliver. Main reason: Clinton kept rewording their work, and every time he rewrote a passage it came out longer...
...understand that Knowles' office is a busy one. Maybe Raza and La O representatives did approach him when he had absolutely no time to spare. But surely he can shorten a Faculty Club lunch break or make a future appointment to meet with students about this important issue...