At his direction, NOAA rapidly began to place academics in oceangoing ships, to assess the dissolved oil, and to conduct similar testing along the coastline.
Let the aspiring athletes who place academics second to sports find their own way from high school athletics to the professional leagues.
Wearing white trousers and tunic and a prayer cap in a room full of ferocious-looking men in black turbans, he looked and sounded like the out-of-place academic he is in Khost.
Accepting money from the federal government to conduct research places academic inquiry in the service of national interests.
There is a value system that places academic, pure, blue-skies research on a pedestal, while anything applied or relevant is looked down upon as somehow second class.
"Their lifestyle, values and mission are exactly the opposite of the mission we are proposing .It is telling that in California, of all places, academic drift should be so strong.
In a recent article in the Atlantic Monthly (31 July 2012), data were presented that placed academic publisher Reed-Elsevier as beating Apple, Microsoft, and Facebook, and the publisher Thomson-Reuters as beating Microsoft and Facebook, in online revenues.
In other places academics and non-government organisations are also actively debating the issues they think the PC won't – or hasn't been asked to – consider.
The testimony given to the Senate Judiciary Committee stands to reflect the image Kavanaugh has painted of himself as a Boy Scout of sorts; a good Catholic kid who worked his "butt off," placing academics, team sports, and charity above all.
