Word: todays
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...been said Abraham Lincoln would have never been elected to the Senate today. Many of those who would have made otherwise made excellent Senators, Representatives or even presidents have been shoved aside by the big boys playing big-boy politics. The Founding Fathers' vision of a fair and representative political system has been lost in a haze of fund-raisers, White House coffees and backroom deals...
...William Hsiao, a School of Public Health (SPH) professor and ardent critic of inefficiencies in the US health care industry, offers similar critiques of medicine in Hong Kong in a report to be released today...
...fragrances, underwear and eyeglasses from any of these designers won't be appearing on highway billboards anytime soon. All are pursuing the kind of niche strategies that fashion watchers argue is the key to longevity in today's market. That's fine--the mall was already way too crowded...
Sources: Washington Post; USA Today; General Accounting Office; Reuters
...movement is driven less by ideology than by economics. Part of graduate school's allure has always been the promise of a cushy professorial job and the likelihood of tenure within a few years. But today that career path looks grim. Of the 8,000 students receiving Ph.D.s in the humanities between 1996 and 2000, less than half will land full-time "tenure track" jobs. Increasingly, colleges farm out teaching to part-time instructors, who earn skimpy salaries and rarely get benefits. So, many graduate students figure, they need to haggle for all they can get now--and they think...