In 1991 Dana Gioia, a poet (and former marketing manager for General Foods), set off a fierce debate in American poetry circles with an attack on American academia for turning poetry into a smug, producer-driven lobby, concerned only with its own survival and indifferent to the fact that it had alienated a wider audience.
Mr Bellos shows that the world is very eager to familiarise itself with English, both as a vehicular language, (routinely used in the corridors of the EU, and in academia for example) and as a literary language.
This could be scary because it disrupts the safe, insular environment that have been the foundation of academia for many years, but at the same time it is transformational and will unleash new ideas and capabilities that we can only dream about today.
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The Democrats also have a good chance in Colorado, where they already control both state houses, the governor's mansion and one Senate seat, and in Nebraska, if they can get Bob Kerrey, a former governor and senator, to forsake academia for a return to politics.
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Except for pockets of research in academia, drug companies have devoted almost no funding to searching for cures for drug and alcohol addiction.
The Airbus Fly Your Ideas challenge is a blueprint for how industry and academia can work together to bridge the classroom-boardroom divide.
This year, for the first time, the launch was held in a university to attract greater interest for the report from academia.
Brandon Hidalgo never had much patience for the rigors of academia.
The researchers found that communal attributes are not the most desirable qualities for job candidates in academia and medicine and affect the likelihood of a hiring decision.
However, the tide may be turning toward tech incubators for one simple reason: academia is academia, and the real world is the real world.
Academia is, for the most part, well suited to work-life balance choices. (I, say, for the most part because science, maths and engineering appear to have deeper problems).
The Mouse Brain Atlas fast became a standard tool for neuroscientists in both industry and academia worldwide.
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But while Elena had a brilliant career in academia, her passion for the law is anything but academic.
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The safest places for bears are the worlds of academia, journalism and consultancy, where people are expected to hold strong opinions.
Like his idol Donovan, Casey raided the corporate world, Wall Street, academia and so forth for the kind of people he needed -- people who thought fast, could spot a pattern with the fewest possible facts, get their point across to everyone else and hit the enemy hard.
In the nineteen-eighties, the Olin family, which owns a chemicals-and-manufacturing conglomerate, became known for funding right-leaning thinking in academia, particularly in law schools.
Capacity-building for leadership at community level and partnerships with academia and the private sector were other areas cited.
Simple and documentary-like, the videos offer a special lens for viewing the students who currently populate American academia.
What Salman Khan and his Khan Academy did for elementary and secondary education, offering world-class instruction online for free, will soon be replicated throughout academia.
The rest come from academia, entrepreneurial or non-for-profit areas.
In this new relationship, UNESCO and Airbus are committed to working together to make connections between industry and academia that promote the importance of engineering for sustainable development, encourage young people to pursue careers in STEM disciplines, and cultivate innovative solutions as a result of international, multidisciplinary teamwork.
Being named a White House Champion of Change is a strong validation for our work to build collaborative relationships between government, academia, and industry.
Academia has maintained a death grip on this area for decades and for good reason.
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Yet for years the hypothesis has been under increasingly fierce attack in academia, unnoticed by the legal system.
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Given his penchant for rewarding big supporters, he is likely to make sure academia is taken care of.
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He worked for HUD under Bill Clinton, and has spent time in academia as well as in the private housing sector.
D. in Philosophy from the University of Oxford, aimed to create a way for academics to share their work easily and digitally when building Academia.edu.
While governments wrestle with financial questions, engineers from academia and the corporate sector are exploring various ideas for making CCS more efficient and thus cheaper.
Academia Barilla's many American students head first for books on American cooking, says Giancarlo Gonizzi, the librarian who classified its contents along the lines of the Dewey decimal system to help users find their way around.
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For example, until their recent work, it was believed in academia that ulama was only played by men.
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