Word: smalls
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...story focuses on a woman named Offred, a handmaid whose only role in life is to conceive children for a man and his wife to raise. No small task in a world in which nuclear waste and pesticides have ensured that many women can no longer bear children. The novel follows Offred as she remembers sorrowfully her pre-Gilead days and struggles with a decision to rebel against her society...
...most daring part of Margaret's book is that, instead of a small town in the Bible Belt, she sets it in the most liberal area in the country, an Eastern campus," he said in an interview...
...bring up student concerns because I worry that students are becoming an ever-smaller part of the University equation. I understand that undergraduate students in particular have always been a small part of the institution as a whole. I can recite the well-worn saying, quoted by President Rudenstine in a recent Faculty meeting, in my sleep: "The students are here for four years, the Faculty for a lifetime, but Harvard is forever." I have come to understand that the University is many more things than a school. Harvard as a scholarly and research-oriented institution is top-notch...
...larger gifts to add to an already burgeoning endowment, in the pursuit of more big-name scholars and researchers, instructing students has been left by the wayside. In addition to inadequate advising and counseling, there are far too many inadequacies in the undergraduate experience. Almost everyone acknowledges that small discussion courses are preferable to the overcrowded lectures which make up the bulk of the undergraduate experience; still, some Faculty try to justify the merits of large lecture courses. Most coursework is taught by inconsistently trained graduate students, while interaction with Faculty is limited to inconsistently offered office hours. The Core...
...only one jealous of those Internet billionaires. High-paid, lavishly pampered executives are watching small start-ups cash in -- and deciding themselves to bail out. The latest defectors to the Net side include Jake Winebaum, architect of Disney's Internet plans, and Lou Dobbs, money anchor for this site's corporate sibling, CNN. Who's going to run the old companies? It's yet another example of the Net creating chaos for business as usual...