• Their standard short, specialised degrees suit only the well prepared: in three years there is no time for a ruthless weeding-out after one year, as is common elsewhere in Europe, or for a broad education before choosing a major subject, as in America.

    ECONOMIST: University education

  • The impact of month of birth on a wide range of child and adult outcomes is currently the subject of a major research project conducted by the Institute of Fiscal Studies, which is expected to report in May.

    BBC: Month of birth affects chance of attending Oxbridge

  • South Yorkshire Police's response to the tragedy is currently subject to a major inquiry by the IPCC.

    BBC: Chief Constable David Crompton

  • "I am quite uncomfortable going outside the Helsinki framework without the requisite analysis on a subject of such major strategic importance, " said Admiral Jay Johnson, Chief of Naval Operations, at a May 23 Senate Armed Services Committee hearing.

    CNN: Bush's missile defense plans may be indistinct from Clinton-Gore's

  • Riley is to be the subject of a major retrospective at Tate Britain next year and Hamilton renewed his fame recently with the release of his illustrations for James Joyce's Ulysses, more than half a century after they were begun.

    BBC: Collectors snap up pop art prints

  • Paulet is the only person to appear in all five of the finished "Card Players" works, which were the subject of a major exhibition at London's Courtauld Institute and at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York last year.

    CNN: March 30, 2012 -- Updated 1502 GMT (2302 HKT)

  • The 37-year-old Rodriguez has been as much a lightning rod for back-page fodder and the subject of Major League Baseball investigations as he has been a force on the field since joining the Yankees in 2004.

    NPR: Hal Steinbrenner Has Been Disappointed In A-Rod

  • If this happens, a number of major initiatives, including (in my view needed the subject of a future post) constitutional revision, will be possible.

    FORBES: Connect

  • To subject any Americans to its jurisdiction would be a major surrender of our sovereignty.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: House 'Sovereignty Caucus' Aimed at Koh

  • For GZA, a major challenge is convincing skeptics for whom hip-hop and an academic subject like physics seem incompatible.

    WSJ: GZA on 'Dark Matter' Album - Interview: Rapper Finds Muse in the Stars

  • At one tense news conference, then Prime Minister John Major turned down Kenny's request for an interview on a particularly sensitive subject.

    BBC: By BBC News Online's Bob Eggington

  • Assemblymen invented on the spot a new law that enabled them to pass major text for a constitutional reform that must be ready by December 14 and be subject to a popular referendum.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Quietly following Chavez's lead

  • This segment of the market is a major beneficiary of the switch from unconventional to conventional vehicles discussed in our post on the subject.

    FORBES: China's Auto Market Keeps Booming

  • Like a good fugue the recent parliamentary debate on regional pay in the NHS had more than one major subject.

    BBC: Who paved way for NHS regional pay?

  • Keynes was a mathematics, not economics, major at Cambridge and wrote essays for the Apostles on almost every subject but economics.

    FORBES: Why John Maynard Keynes Was A Keynesian

  • By 2007 that had fallen to just 10, 600, and although it's recovered a little to 13, 600 last year, that's at a time in major growth in overall applications, so the percentage of students looking to study the subject has fallen from 5% to 3%.

    BBC: Coding - the new Latin

  • Changes also had to be made to the rules for takeovers, he went on - so that investors and businesses could build for the long-term, adding that a new mechanism was needed to ensure major infrastructure decisions were made for the long term and not subject to political cycles.

    BBC: UK business too focused on short term, says Labour report

  • The rise of such a currency should be a major boost to global economic growth and prosperity, empowering the world economy to trade in currency not subject to inflation, devaluations, and variation in real market value.

    FORBES: Rethinking Money: The Rise Of Hayek's Private Competing Currencies

  • The lack of achievement in maths had once been a major cause for concern - and the education department has highlighted that there has been steady improvement in the subject.

    BBC: Handwriting

  • On his personal home page he posts the exact coordinates of his home, his birthdate and parents, medical problems (heart attack, carcinoma, narcolepsy, dyslexia, pneumonia, motion sickness) and even a copy of the 1976 letter booting him out of Duke University for getting an F in his graduate major subject.

    FORBES: Harvard Professor Re-Identifies Anonymous Volunteers In DNA Study

  • Each subject rates each category on a scale of 1 to 7, ranging from Not a Problem to Major Problem.

    NEWYORKER: Looking for Someone

  • Mr Mugabe did stray from his usual targets - former British Prime Minister Tony Blair still a major preoccupation - to touch on the "momentous" but unfinished events of the Arab Spring - an awkward subject, you might think, for a man who has been in power for more than three decades.

    BBC: Zimbabwe: The land of nervous laughter

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