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Taeku Lee will join Harvard as the first of four ethnic studies scholars to join the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, the school announced Monday.

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Joe Manchin Can’t Shoot Down the Logic of a Wealth Tax

Taxing unsightly agglomerations of wealth directly is an idea whose time has come.
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The South Korean government worries that widespread testing will not be enough to stop new clusters of covid-19 emerging across the country
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South Korea keeps covid-19 at bay without a total lockdown

 Working paper: Spatial Organization of Firms: Internal and External Agglomeration Economies and Location Choices Through the Value Chain
Download the PDF. Juan Alcacer (HBS) and Mercedes Delgado (Fox School of Business) argue that decisions about geographical location are a tradeoff between external drivers pulling firms to geographically disperse activities and internal drivers pushing within-firm collocation, either across activities (such as manufacturing and R&D) or within activities (such as multiple R&D labs).



cluster

n.

1. A group of the same or similar elements gathered or occurring closely together; a bunch: “She held out her hand, a small tight cluster of fingers” (Anne Tyler).
2. Linguistics. Two or more successive consonants in a word, as cl and st in the word cluster.
3. A group of academic courses in a related area.

v., -tered, -ter·ing, -ters. v.intr.
To gather or grow into bunches.
v.tr.
To cause to grow or form into bunches.

[Middle English, from Old English clyster.]

Faculty cluster hiring is an emerging practice in higher education and involves hiring faculty into multiple departments or colleges around interdisciplinary research topics, or “clusters.” Some cluster hiring programs also aim to increase faculty diversity or address other aspects of institutional excellence, ...

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cattail
n.
Any of various perennial herbs of the genus Typha, widespread in marshy places and having long straplike leaves and a dense cylindrical cluster of minute flowers and fruits. Also called reed mace.






slough¹ (slū, slou)

also slew (slū)
n.

1. A depression or hollow, usually filled with deep mud or mire.
2. also slue A stagnant swamp, marsh, bog, or pond, especially as part of a bayou, inlet, or backwater.
3. A state of deep despair or moral degradation.

[Middle English, from Old English slōh.]

agglomerate[ag・glom・er・ate]

[動] 〔〕 (他)(自)かたまりにする［なる］.

━━[形] 〔〕 かたまりになった, 塊状の.

━━[名] 〔〕

1 集塊, かたまり.

2 集塊岩.

ag・glóm・er・à・tive

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