Word: sizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When Dean of the Faculty A. Michael Spence makes his fundraising pitch to alumni, there's one thing he's sure to mention--the need to increase the size of the faculty...
Department members will present the committee with information about how the undergraduate curriculum works, including information on the amount of student interest, departmental advising, concentration requirements, the "menu" and size of courses, the use of graduate student teaching fellows and the structure of tutorials...
...size of Trump's bid drew gasps as well, since it was the most ever offered for an airline and was almost 50% higher than the price of AMR shares just before the bid. But the airline industry is in the grip of takeover fever. After fending off bids from Los Angeles oilman Marvin Davis, the management and employees of No. 2-ranked United in Chicago are attempting to take their company private for an estimated $6.7 billion. And last June an investor group led by Los Angeles financier Alfred Checchi paid $3.6 billion for No. 4-ranked Northwest Airlines...
Tsavo, the country's largest wildlife reserve, was once the grandest elephant sanctuary in Kenya. Now it is a case study of what has gone wrong -- and how the elephant may yet be saved. Tsavo stretches over 8,000 sq. mi., an area the size of Israel. In the mid-1960s, 40,000 elephants thundered amid the scrub thorn, acacia and baobob trees. Last year's aerial survey spotted only 5,363 live elephants in and around the park, and 2,421 carcasses. The survivors are skittish creatures, often clustered in fear and quick to flee at the scent...
...dream as well as for what they can see: the elk, which roam the Rockies ("Is that a reindeer?"); the prairie towns, which resemble those in a grainy old movie; the vanilla flatlands; the rolling farms. "More than anything else I can imagine, it makes you appreciate the size and grandeur of the country," says Geraldine Stevenson, 71, a retired schoolteacher from Saskatchewan who has ridden the Canadian many times. "It seems we're always being nibbled at here and there. We're losing our identity, and trains are a part of that...