Word: specialize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Professors want to help undergraduates explore theories and research. They do not want to figure out whether econometrics counts as a special field for this year's graduating seniors. Professors want to balance their time between cutting-edge research, teaching and interaction with actors like the Federal Reserve. The current system in economics tries to free professors so that they have a more meaningful role in the development of undergraduates. If undergraduates were constantly asking, for example, whether Anthropology 105 counts as a related field, professors would have less time for thesis advising. But this draws the ire of students...
...wary of all questions concerning security because of past precident with the UN bombing and the Oaklahoma City bombing. "Portions of the building have been evacuated at certain points," mentioned one guard I-refuse-to-give-my-name-because-I-am-security-and-I-have-to-take-extra-special-precautions. Nevertheless, take a look at the Biggest building in Boston if you can just escape the evil glare of the guards the "top of the hub" in the evening is a pretty romantic spot...
SOMERVILLE--Now that its former mayor, new Representative Michael C. Capuano (D-Somerville), has moved to Washington, the city that borders Cambridge is gearing up for a special mayoral election primary on March...
...knew this next assignment was special because the Firm's regional director was in the office. He only comes in when we play limousine tag in The Village...
...newspaper in New Jersey. "It's an adjustment coming from a daily paper with a regional audience to a magazine with a global one." But last week Gabel, who designs three-dimensional illustrations for TIME, faced a different challenge. At midweek, he was called upon to create a special foldout graphic on Internet companies, even as cyberdeals and rumors of cyberdeals were in the air, requiring constant revisions in the way the illustration was conceived. "I was forced to condense five days' worth of work into two," he says. Er, you mean asked, Ed, not forced, right? "Well...I pretty...