Word: investment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...South African fellows I've met here are janitors back home, and they said they will return to their positions upon their return. Coming to Harvard is like a temporary break from hell. That is not a commitment on Harvard's part. A commitment means you invest in someone's future, make a difference worth noting. Harvard teases students by allowing them to glimpse freedoms that it is helping to deny them...
...only justification of the fellow system is that Harvard's administration is trying to invest in some sort of ROTC system, letting these people go back and take over the fight, armed with a liberal arts education. But bullets don't bounce off scholars...
People elsewhere aren't as likely to invest their dreams in a player so likely to leave them unfulfilled. Flutie was a great college player at Boston College. He won the Heisman Trophy. In his senior year, he threw a 56-yd. touchdown pass to beat the University of Miami, still hailed as "The Miracle in Miami...
...without either a crisis or a dramatic effort to avert one. But Reagan was right in 1981: a society, like an individual family, cannot live beyond its means indefinitely. In fact, if it wants to prosper and grow, it cannot even live at its means. It must save and invest for the future. We have not been doing that, and unless this changes we will suffer for it, even if the suffering takes the form of slow stagnation rather than some bloodcurdling cataclysm...
...stopped. If the CBO's estimate of 2.3% a year is right, we'd be home free if the next President could persuade us simply to hold consumption at its present levels for his first term, using the dividends of economic growth to pay off our debts and invest for an even more prosperous future...