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Annie took a lot of time to be informed about programs she was interested in, and looked closely at the program's record of success, in addition to the academic offerings. Annie learned to respectfully communicate her interests or lack of interest to the many coaches who called her starting after her junior year last July. The experience was enlightening, and Annie had a good ability to control the situation and express her needs.

A nice feather in their cap to go out. In this strong academic conference, it is a great honor to be accomplished in the classroom and on the golf course. These two players set the bar high and are certainly very deserving of this honor.

Any student who engages in this kind of activity today can be suspended for up to three days, and may be removed from school outright. There also are severe academic consequences.

The broad conclusion from tons of academic research is that private sector does things better than government. In a lot of these cases privatization is the only thing do because (large state projects) require a lot of capital and government entities usually have limited access to capital.

At Valor, we believe that the personal, social and academic growth of students is a responsibility shared by our students, their parents, the Valor staff, the school district and the community in which we live.

As long as there are no significant objections, the school should be given the status in time for the academic year beginning in September 2006.

As long as students continue to corrupt this specialized academic network for the flagrant theft of music, we will continue to make it clear that there are consequences for these unlawful actions.

You show me a great athletic program and you're probably going to have a great academic program as well, ... For some reason, they go hand in hand. There's no doubt there's a huge correlation.

This is a welcomed validation that the NCAA believes we are on the right path with our academic game plan.

This is for any workload which needs high-power computing. We are seeing a transition from government and academic use to a broader market - to bring it into the mainstream. The sweet spot is not for really big machines but in the range of 4 to 64 way machines.

This is a program that can be successful in absolutely everything that we do. There are two flagship universities in the state of Texas. One is in the state capital, and the other is in College Station. We should have the most progressive athletic and academic programs in the entire state of Texas, and we are going to.

This is the first step toward academic reform, being able to measure what you're doing and be accountable for it.

This is not a stuffy academic conference. This is open to the public and free.

This is not just an academic exercise by a bunch of nerdy gene hunters. This is the engine that will transform medicine.

This is not just an academic exercise by a bunch of nerdy gene hunters. This is an effort that will transform medicine.

This isn't being published for the academic community, albeit the academic community is keenly interested in it. From a student and parents' perspective, to know the relative peer standings of a school is important.

This is particularly important for academic researchers who are seeking to find out if discoveries in the laboratory actually have promise in people. Now we can learn tremendous amounts of information without exposing people to very high doses.

The Wellcome Foundation offered me the chance to establish a small academic research unit, modestly funded, but with total independence. The real opportunity, however, came from King's College, London.

The University went into this knowing that our role was going to be to raise the standards of the current academic program.

The University of Minnesota has basically said, 'Well, we aren't intending to do it. But we want the right to.' And that's the problem, is that open door. I understand academic freedom. I'm a big supporter of academic freedom. But I feel like there should be some academic responsibility.

The University of Colorado is a gold mine ... and we're going to work our tail off to bring a great coach to this program to match the academic standing of this institution. That will be my sole focus.

The university has a budget and some of it goes to Academic Affairs. Every year within their budget they can hire 'X' number of teachers. The president has decided to add to that amount with the $1 million this year.

This goes back two or three years, (when we were) sorting out what we could do for the (Plan for Academic Enrichment) in advance of the campaign.

This award is presented by the state. They make their choices based on both athletic and academic excellence.

This is an academic enterprise of a particular kind in the fine arts: taking a program and honing it to a very high degree.

This initiative aims to marry the best of drug industry practice with academic excellence in a university environment.

This inaugural class will set the tone with high academic standards, a deep commitment to public service and a resolve not to fail. The main theme of the presentation will be to encourage students to set high goals and make every effort to exceed them.

This has been a most difficult decision I have ever had to make in my entire life. But after consultation with my doctor and my family, I have decided not to rejoin the football team. I will focus on regaining my health and my academic pursuit of getting an MBA.

A lot of people doubted his ability to handle the academic rigors at our school. He's proven he can do that and be a fantastic All-American football player and be a fantastic citizen. He's got a heart for young people. He wants to give back. He's just a great credit to this program and our university.

A meeting of the Academic Council (AC) has been scheduled for Monday, while a meeting of the Governing Council (GC) has been scheduled for September 14. We decided to open up the Academic Department for two days - today and tomorrow - to facilitate the meeting of the AC.

A lot of us are concerned about the academic performance of baseball teams.

They gave a nice academic touch to our squad.

They don't have Greenspan's practical edge to them, but they all have academic and government policy experience. I hesitate to say they won't live up to Greenspan, but that would be hoping for an awful lot.

They are barred indefinitely from all team activities, and their academic and personal activities will be closely monitored on a daily basis by the members of our basketball staff. They will continue to have complete access to all of the academic support staff so they can focus their energies on their studies.

This milestone just means that I have been fortunate enough to work at a school that has a great academic reputation. That lets us attract some quality student athletes. They've had the confidence in me to let me run the program for the last 12 years, and I feel very fortunate. It also makes me think about the coach I played for here at AU, Don Holler. Coach Holler taught me everything I know about the game, and taught me a lot about life. He and his wife are very close to me.

This measure would require a parent to decide when a child is 9 or 10 years old what his academic needs and athletic interests will be for the next seven to eight years.

There was little in my early life to indicate that an interest in biology would become the passion of my academic career. In fact, there was little to suggest I would have an academic career.

There's a big difference in managing a rather large, academic medical center that has a level one trauma center, a new children's hospital coming on line soon, a lot of critical health care delivery needs -- and (then) managing the security of the campus.

This is truly a collaborative project, bringing in advisors from the nonprofit, the for-profit, the academic and the government sectors. We all have an interest in improving how we meet the needs of nonprofits.

This kind of advocacy can be an academic exercise, but John always wanted to make sure he could explain his arguments in real-world terms. He's not the kind of guy who makes up his mind right away. He goes through cases brick by brick.

There's a lot of practical interest and a lot of academic interest in the patent system. And I think the community is going to be extremely motivated to do (reviews).

There's been an academic situation from a previous institution where he is, at this point of time, ineligible. He still has to earn his Associate of Arts (A.A.) degree. We are expecting him to come back to UNLV when he does.

The research side of academic life is often viewed from the outside as a solo and, at times, lonely activity. In fact, it is quite the opposite: a communal activity in significant part where interaction and interchange generate ideas and critiques of them.

There's also all the tedious academic books that come out. There's something like a book or an article on Beowulf being produced every week at the moment.

There's a lot of things to learn, starting with you'd better caution people just as the State Department cautioned people, especially those of Chinese descent, before they decide to engage in academic research in China,

There's a new NCAA rule in Division 1. In the academic year it used to be two assistants on the road and now it's three. All the three of our guys, their primary role will be recruiting.

As Washington University continues to grow its biomedical and academic research programs, they are realizing the need for one centralized system to help them manage and track often overwhelming amounts of data and reports.

ASUM hosts the Student Showcase every year in order for unique academic programs in the UM system to present their programs and their accomplishments to legislators.

A balanced diet and physical activity are vital to academic performance. A healthy diet has a direct link to increased cognitive function and memory skills, decreased absenteeism from school, and improved mood. These advantages can help students stay focused and complete their coursework.

Abolishing tenure could just turn the decision making over to deans who come out of today's orthodox academic world. That would mean that few remaining non-leftists would get pushed out.

Accepting money from the federal government to conduct research places academic inquiry in the service of national interests.

Academic skills are things we're going to be teaching them. Socially, you don't know until they're here interacting with other kids.

Academic research shows pretty convincingly that people have separate accounts in mind, one for the item itself and one for shipping.

Academic reform is really reshaping the focus of analysis to the team level.

Academic departments will work with students to help them enroll in appropriate courses, and on-campus student housing may also be available. However, time is of the essence, and we hope to have interested students enrolled as soon as possible.

It's just as important as having a major league baseball team or an academic medical center, ... It creates a sense of sophistication in the community.

It seems so obvious to say the social world and the academic world are linked.

It's a risk, especially when the hiring is done by the dean over there, who is not an expert in all these different fields in which courses will be offered, ... I assume that in a well-run academic institution the people who are hired to teach the various areas are selected by peers in those areas.

It's a retention rate, not just an academic rate. The spirit of this rule is right on. We're always pushing to get better. I don't think it's fair, but I am very confident we will be over 925 for the 2005-06 school year.

It's a technical issue, not an academic issue. He's fine academically.

It was purely for economic and academic reasons.

It was the C average kids that really came through and won it for us this year. Academic Decathlon gives some kids who may not be the strongest students a chance to really prove themselves.

It says a great deal about our student-athletes to have a solid representation on the Academic All-League Team. I am extremely pleased and proud of our team for their successes both in the pool and the classroom.

It's a cultural change. What we want is to mirror our student bodies (in academic performance and graduation rates). This is putting consequences on people who are not headed in that direction.

It is really nice to see that we won't have any penalties. All of our coaches understand the importance of this. It is part of their job description now to meet these academic progress numbers.

It never has been my intent to deceive others and I take responsibility for not providing more specific information and not being clearer on my academic credentials.

It's a really great academic environment and the teachers are great. I certainly give a lot of credit to the teachers and people in the district.

It's not uncommon for private schools across the nation to hold kids back for a year, normally in the intermediate age, ... It's for academic reasons, emotional, physical reasons, to fully develop the child. It wasn't to gain an athletic advantage. It was to develop the study habits to succeed in college.

It's not worth our time to go after kids without the academic credentials.

It's the best indicator of how much academic language they are acquiring. Occasionally, you have kids who all of a sudden get on a real learning curve and you just pour everything you can. It's amazing, they soak up so much.

It is this type of leadership that promotes academic excellence in the public schools of Alabama.

It's another avenue that students have to get out and meet other people, and get away from the normal academic environment.

It's hard to maintain in high school unless you have your own feeder system. We have a lot of kids going to Academic Magnet or who choose to go to Bishop England. The next few years, we could do well, but the key is to keep getting the kids in.

It's been pretty easy adjusting to the college life. I went to school for the first semester in Pennsylvania so I got real used to the academic perspective of it and it took me no time to get used to living up here. There are a lot of good people so it's been an awesome transition.

It's possible to bring an academic ethos to a commercial setting and to bring a commercial ethos to an academic setting.

Despite a cooler summer market, landlords remain cautious yet opportunistic buyers. September is a busy time in the rentals market with many people starting new jobs and, of course, the new academic year starting in universities and colleges up and down the country. Weve continued to see a reasonable flow of property investment in many parts of the country as landlords look to purchase suitable properties in advance to meet identified demand.

Dawkins Law of the Conservation of Difficulty states that obscurantism in an academic subject expands to fill the vacuum of its intrinsic simplicity

The normal fan out there has no idea how hard they work and how committed they are to the academic side.

That program is rather similar, so all of those students will live together in residence halls and there will be, again, a sort of academic and cultural component that comes into the residence halls.

It's nice to have kids to come out and meet us, and we get to meet them. It's kind of a little reward for them for some of the things they are doing in their academic program. I'm glad to be a part of it and it's kind of exciting to see smart young kids.

It's much more elegant and sophisticated to pretend it had to do with a violation of academic standards.

Einstein was a really interesting guy. He wasn't some dutiful little chap who went through the academic system and did everything proper. He had an enormous ego -- any lesser ego would have given up. He publishes this stuff and nobody pays attention for four years, but he is possessed -- and that's what makes him hell to be with as a human.

Economic science concerns itself primarily with theoretical and empirical generalizations about the behavior of individuals, institutions, markets, and national economies. Most academic research falls in this category.

The Better World Project shows how technology transfer - the process of licensing and commercializing academic research - improves people's lives, contributes to the economy and supports tomorrow's discoveries.

The Better World Project shows how technology transfer -- the process of licensing and commercializing academic research -- improves people's lives, contributes to the economy and supports tomorrow's discoveries.

Students want to have these services in one place. Student feedback really was the driving force behind the Student and Academic Services Building.

Students should apply now to lock in on lower interest rates. I believe they have from right now until the end of this academic year.

The administrators and teachers have opened doors for parents. The more parents participate, the better academic results the kids will have.

Students don't get enough sleep or exercise. They set high standards for themselves. Students can become stressed because of finances or family worries, and just the normal academic demands they have to deal with, especially at this time of year, are all things that affect the amount of stress college students may have.

Students are coming because of the renown of our academic programs, the connection of the city to its industries and the opportunities for internships that this brings. The city has become the place everybody wants to be.

Student bus ridership was up 30 percent last academic year. We hope to see that improve even more.

It's important that we understand when talking about the relationship between actions of foreign policy and the notions of international law we have the sense of what actually happens practically, which is contrary to most academic views.

It's curious how this parallels what goes on in academia. In academic fields like cultural studies, there's a lot of emphasis placed on finding and celebrating instances of audience "counter-hegemony" or audience "agency" instances of people not acting in the way that TV or the culture industry tells them to - the idea being that people really do have free will.

It's an evaluation off tape only. We do not call the school or do any investigative work whatsoever. Playing is a huge part of it, but there's no talking to the coach, no seeing the guy on the hoof, no talking to the academic people or the strength coach.

It was a great academic school, and it fit me, basketball-wise. The players are awesome, and the coaches are real family-oriented.

It was a good transition from the academic world to Hollywood.

It's very safe in the academic community; no one thinks anything of it. But to some extent there's more talk than action.

It's very safe in the academic community: no one thinks anything of it,

It will be designed as an elementary school, whereas (the current academic building) is designed as a middle school-high school.

It was just as close to Castleberry as it was to W.S. Neal and Castleberry had a very good basketball coach, ... I was into sports and loved basketball. They didn't have a football team. I was an above average student in a class of 19. I was able to get an academic scholarship to Jefferson Davis Junior College when I graduated in 1970.