A July working paper out of the National Bureau of Economic Research reported substantial learning gains among participants in 96 programs lasting 10 weeks to a year, with mostly low, often 1-to-1, student-tutor ratios.
Creative school plans could counter inequities exposed by COVID-19|Sujata Gupta|September 8, 2020|Science News
The 8th District takes in South Boston, a historically working-class and Irish American community.
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Publishers can’t predict how much longer the peaks will last, especially since plenty of remote working and home decor purchases — monitors, treadmills, desks — are one-time purchases.
Beyond the boom and bust cycle: How The Sun grew and stabilized its e-commerce revenue haul|Lucinda Southern|August 27, 2020|Digiday
Reports have criticized unsafe working conditions in Amazon warehouses and some workers in Minneapolis even went on strike on Prime Day last year.
Who is Dave Clark, the new chief of Amazon’s giant retail business?|Aaron Pressman|August 22, 2020|Fortune
Long-entrenched views on such things as remote working and digitization have changed.
Research: Only 25 percent of professionals expect to be working from home long-term|DailyPay|August 17, 2020|Digiday
Together, the teams are working 24 hours a day for a product that promises much higher risk than it does profit.
The Race for the Ebola Vaccine|Abby Haglage|January 7, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Take the chief metric of the war in Vietnam—body counts, which ultimately did not answer whether the strategy was working.
Pentagon Doesn’t Know How Many People It’s Killed in the ISIS War|Nancy A. Youssef|January 7, 2015|DAILY BEAST
I wish I was a young Carole King, working in the Brill Building.
Belle & Sebastian Aren’t So Shy Anymore|James Joiner|January 7, 2015|DAILY BEAST
He also was working to recruit Castro as a driver for a drug load.
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The brokers then scout out potential “crew members” who can earn substantial discounts for working the journey.
Ghost Ships of the Mediterranean|Barbie Latza Nadeau|January 6, 2015|DAILY BEAST
He refused to treat the matter lightly, but gathered up the tools with which he had been working.
Boy Scouts in the North Sea|G. Harvey Ralphson
And then he became interested in the men who were working in the chalk pit down below.
The Research Magnificent|H. G. Wells
The technical reader will at once grasp the idea thus embodied, and will need no further description of the details of working.
Sharps and Flats|John Nevil Maskelyne
For thirty-five years the Academy had been working at its Dictionnaire.
A Popular History of France From The Earliest Times|Francois Pierre Guillaume Guizot
In Pg 44 future working each of these blisters forms a constant unprotected point for attack.
Records of Steam Boiler Explosions|Edward Bindon Marten
British Dictionary definitions for working
working
/ (ˈwɜːkɪŋ) /
noun
the operation or mode of operation of something
the act or process of moulding something pliable
a convulsive or jerking motion, as from excitement
(often plural)a part of a mine or quarry that is being or has been worked
(plural)the whole system of excavations in a mine
a record of the steps by which the result of a calculation or the solution of a problem is obtainedall working is to be submitted to the examiners
rareslow advance against or as if against resistance
adjective(prenominal)
relating to or concerned with a person or thing that worksa working man
concerned with, used in, or suitable for workworking clothes
(of a meal or occasion) during which business discussions are carried onworking lunch; working breakfast
capable of being operated or useda working model
sufficiently large or accurate to be useful or to accomplish a desired enda working majority; a working knowledge of German
(of a theory, etc) providing a basis, usually a temporary one, on which operations or procedures may be carried out