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...important move to make the Business School's first-year curriculum more cohesive, the school will switch the sequence of two required courses next fall...
...expected was traumatic for a pampered bourgeois culture--a society in which the old and the sick are pushed out of sight and out of mind and to which the unreality of video violence and fatality is but an image, which can be erased with the flip of a switch. Here was full-color, live video death--the real thing, something that did not disappear with the images on a TV screen...
...Billerica, where the average age of the prisoners is 23, a volunteer tutor will not usually work one-on-one with the same prisoner week after week, Vanasse says. "They switch us around. The focus is on getting contact form the outside, not forming personal relationships," Vanasse says...
...A.M.A. could strengthen its case by stressing that outlawing cigarette advertising is aimed at protecting minors. Critics of the tobacco industry scoff at its claims that cigarette ads are designed primarily to get smokers to stick with one brand or try another. "A rather small number of smokers switch," maintains Northeastern University Law Professor Richard Daynard. "The big payoff is in getting people to smoke, and the fresh market is entirely kids." Cigarette advertisers counter that they do not promote directly to a youth market, that they do not use sports or entertainment stars, and that all models...
Shocked by the market's spasms the day after their remarks, OPEC delegates proceeded carefully. Instead of deciding to switch to free-for-all prices, the ministers appointed a committee to consider strategies. When the market continued to plummet, the ministers finally restored order by making soothing remarks. Said Alirio Parra, the chief adviser to Venezuela's oil minister: "We are astounded by the way the market has reacted." While individual members will no doubt continue to make under-the-table discounts, as they have for several years, no official price cuts are likely to come until the group meets...