Word: shun
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...They Leave Inadequate resources, including poor facilities and low pay Stifling bureaucracy, especially in France and Germany , hurts efficiency Better career opportunities abroad. Europeans fill academic postdoc jobs that Americans shun in favor of industry What May Lure Them Back Higher funding. The European Commission is spending €17.5 billion onR and D from 2002 through 2006 More meritocracy, replacing the traditional hierarchical model Stronger pan-E.U. networks, especially through a European Research Council
...index. But who has the time? Certainly not the generation that is growing up with Google. According to a 2001 Pew Research Center study, 71% of online teens rely "mostly on the Internet" for their homework. As the pace of life grows faster, the tendency is to shun any information that isn't delivered fresh and piping hot to our computer screens within seconds. And that means books lose...
...Chinese palates have been cultivated on Kong fare, or “a lot of the kids coming in for late night study breaks.” Malini D. Sur ’04, Ari M. Shaw ’04, Juliana H. Chow ’04 and Shun Kakazu ’04 recently celebrated Kakazu’s 22nd birthday with scallion pancakes and a Scorpion Bowl. Perhaps echoing the sentiment of many a nocturnal Harvard student, Shaw notes that despite mixed feelings about the quality of the food, “we somehow keep getting sucked...
...attention that exposure can bring, but was reluctant to submit himself to the spotlight. He implied this conflict in the preface to his 1985 autobiography, Blessings in Disguise: "[At the suggestion of an autobiography] ? Ego was immensely flattered and I was appalled." Guinness, a fervent Catholic, always appeared to shun public attention and yet at the same time made damn sure he got it. He forbade any tribute after his death. Yet he published two further volumes of diaries (revealing as little as possible), and according to Read would be offended if congregations didn't applaud after his readings...
...Lamont; trucker cap, vintage t-shirt, the requisite tattoos and appropriately intellectual glasses. But one listen to Lamont’s tunes, such as the fast moving recent single “Hotwire,” prove Knipfing and bandmates Jesse Sherman and Todd Bowman would shun the library’s quiet time rules. “I think we’d scare the shit out of your students,” Knipfing admits with the candor of a true rock star...