Word: understood
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...sterling resume is as important as a generous salary. Analysts just out of college sign up for two-year contracts, and it's understood that most will move on after the contract is up. After that, there are four main routes: An analyst can stay in investment banking and seek a promotion, go to a venture capital firm, to private industry, or to business school. Industry is the most popular choice, especially with 25-year-old Internet millionaires cropping up everywhere--some analysts even leave early for Silicon Valley. And more and more graduates are skipping finance altogether to found...
...implications of this technology--and the potential threat to your right to privacy--are only now becoming understood. "A tremendous amount of personal-data collection is going on. Millions of people's preferences, behaviors and desires are being profiled," says Jeffrey Chester of the Center for Media Education...
...That understood, the early years of the Harvard-Yale football rivalry in a sense defined much of the modern sports rivalry, not to mention the modern sports event. Along with the intensity of The Game came a magnitude of spectating rarely seen before in the platform of American sport. The 1883 Game was played at the famous Polo Grounds in New York City, in front of a record 10,000 spectators. By 1902, at Yale Field, 30,000 showed up to watch Yale win 23-0. The hard-crunching action of the sport of football combined with the natural competitive...
...only concern. The council budget committee should draft a resolution that will raise the percentage of council funds that are earmarked for student groups. The current 60 percent is a good start, and the actual allocation of 67.5 percent this year is encouraging, but if the council is best understood as a clearinghouse for student-group funds that currently runs some mediocre campus-wide events, 80 percent of the fees should go to student groups. Twenty percent of the proposed new fee would give the council a reasonable increase over their current discretionary budget and a chance to impress...
...hippie. Don't worry; God isn't portrayed as a total goof: a mother's smile and a beatific demeanor balance Morissette's character, and exhibit an unconventional reverence for the role. She never speaks, but one can tell by Her presence that She is not something to be understood, and certainly not something to be feared...