Word: thriving
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...margin, it might allow us to be a little bit more calibrated in finding people who would excel and thrive at BCG,” said King. But he added, “We are comfortable making decisions on people in the absence of grades...
...Such changes are grounds for students to be allowed to apply as transfer students for the spring semester,” Nikolich said. “Tulane isn’t the same school we applied to.” But McClendon said she thinks students will still thrive at Tulane. “As difficult as this situation has been, there have been a few positive things that came out of it—one of those being that I could focus just about anywhere,” she wrote. “It’s just...
...type of powdery ceramic called zeolite. Each grain of zeolite is riddled with submicroscopic tunnels that are stuffed with silver ions. It releases the ions only in exchange for others--say, sodium ions in a salty drop of sweat. So ion-rich liquids, in which bugs often thrive, activate AgION's microbicide. "The ceramic delivers enough silver to be effective," says AgION CTO Jeffrey Trogolo, "but not so much that it loses effect over its lifetime...
...that a very specific branch of Christianity is shaping the relationship between science and theology. “It’s not about science or religion,” Moore says.Edwards says conservative evangelicals are responsible for the framing of the intelligent design debate. “Evangelicals thrive on being embattled—their identity is tied up into being attacked and their defending principles,” Edwards says. “Being attacked by science only validates their position.” But Philip D. Powell ’06, an Orthodox Christian, says...
...overseas firms seem to thrive, building profitable cars with U.S. workers, while Detroit languishes? For example, in the first quarter of 2005, Nissan made $1,603 on every vehicle sold in North America, while GM lost $2,311, according to Harbour Consulting. For starters, the transplants, generally with reputations for higher quality than American brands, don't offer the deep discounts that U.S. makers employ. And foreign manufacturers don't carry the legacy costs that drag U.S. companies down. Workers at foreign companies' nonunion shops make roughly the same in wages and benefits as unionized employees in Detroit. But Asian...