In short, modern societies have developed vast institutions oriented around the things that are easy to count, not around the things that matter most.
But there is no natural constituency for efficiency; instead, individuals and institutions are oriented to getting the most out of the current way of working.
Now specializing in lending to small business, this community oriented institution is also trusted with the deposits of over 600 non-profits.
If your institution is heavily oriented toward the arts and the humanities, for example, your students will likely be entering relatively low paying professions.
TIRELESS pursuit of the unknown has long been a point of pride among contemporary choreographers, and a way of distinguishing themselves from what many see as the musty, out-of-touch traditions of more classically oriented institutions.
Yet protest groups have also emerged at vocationally oriented institutions like Leeds Metropolitan University, where students traditionally have had a hard-nosed attitude that education is a tool for career advancement.
This intervention may be adopted by institutions with websites oriented to motivate HIV testing among similar MSM populations.
In the early 20th century, Baltimore was home to several African American classically oriented music institutions which drew on a rich tradition of symphonic music, chamber concerts, oratorios, documented in large part by the Baltimore Afro-American, a local periodical.
Import substitution under a state controlled economy promised fiscal support for a massive hospital building program, while the first, research oriented health institutions were created: the Children's Hospital and the National Institute of Nutrition.
And for his part, Joseph J. McCarthy, associate dean at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University -- which often competes with the Wilson school for the best students -- said he thought his institution was more real-world oriented.
The organization was established with the explicit intention of creating a neutral, technically oriented and nonpolitical institution.
