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...study published in the American Economic Review, Siegfried and J.T. Wilkinson found that “the presence of a competing undergraduate business major at the same university is likely to reduce the number of economics students by more than the entire average-size economics program,” according to Siegfried and David K. Round’s 2001 study “International Trends in Economics Degrees During the 1990s...
...loose," a code word for undisciplined. Paterno has accomplished one of the rarest feats in sports: replacing a legendary coach, Rip Engle (whom he served as an assistant for 16 years), and becoming a larger legend. Switzer, after 13 head-coaching seasons, has not begun to displace Bud Wilkinson in the mind's image of an Oklahoma coach. Yet for 154 games, Switzer's and Wilkinson's charts--126 victories, 24 losses, four ties, three national championships--are identical...
...experience has taught many bottlers a lesson. "What Coca-Cola didn't realize was that the old Coke was the property of the American public," says Bobby Wilkinson, president of Huntsville Coca-Cola Bottling Co. in Alabama. "The bottlers thought they owned it. The company thought it owned it. But the consumers knew they owned it. And when someone tampered with it, they got upset...
ACCORDING TO A SOURCE IN the State Department, Jim Wilkinson, a senior adviser to Condoleezza Rice, recently asked the department's historian for a list of countries that have never been visited by a U.S. Secretary of State. An unlikely Trivial Pursuit question, his inquiry signals that Rice's travels, which have already taken her to 11 countries in her first six weeks on the job, will be more extensive than most of her predecessors'. "The Secretary will travel when there's serious diplomatic work to be done," says Wilkinson. "There's no better diplomacy than personal contact...
...Pakistan, Japan, China and South Korea), she will attend a meeting next month in Santiago, Chile, on emerging democracies. Rice has visited eight NATO nations, and by summer, she or her deputy, Robert Zoellick, plan to travel to the remaining 17. By then, she may be ready to tackle Wilkinson's list. --By Elaine Shannon