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Whereas Wharton and Sloan students might head to securities industry jobs that require advanced mathematical backgrounds regardless of economic conditions, Harvard grads—who Soifer said are trained to be “generalists”—might spurn Wall Street offers during a bear market for business jobs not directly linked to the stock exchanges...
...Middle East is one issue on which the Europeans all agree," says François Heisbourg, director of the Paris-based Foundation for Strategic Research. "Even in Paris, it is clearly understood that the peace process can only move forward if America and Europe work together. If the Americans spurn this opportunity, it'll be 10 times worse than [the U.S. rejection of the Kyoto treaty] for America's image...
...first time that Cendant brass had been rebuffed by one of their own. Tom Kunz ran a San Diego office of another Cendant franchise, Century 21, before his promotion to CEO of the real estate firm, and while he was a broker he rejected company appeals to spurn online referrals. Why? Sharing listings with the likes of Lending Tree. com generated enough leads to offset the pain of having to share commissions...
...time when electronic communication is fast replacing phone calls, faxes, and even personal contact, many of the University’s most prominent professors decline to give out their addresses to students—or spurn e-mail completely...
...Iraq and the way it has dominated the nation's attention is President Bush's legislative agenda. Nearly all his initiatives have either stalled or run into trouble in Congress. His immigration-reform initiative, which would give illegal immigrants guest-worker status, appears to be going nowhere. Conservatives spurn it as a reward for illegal activities, while liberals complain that it doesn't go far enough. A welfare-reform bill, which would toughen work requirements, got caught in a tussle over whether to raise the minimum wage. Meanwhile, even with gasoline prices rising, the energy bill that was once...