Word: investment
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...usually give change to panhandlers, not because I find them to be undeserving (who am I to make that judgement?), but because I think there are better ways to invest my resources. Hunger and homelessness are serious problems with deep structural roots that are not going to be resolved by flipping quarters into cups, and if by reaching into our pockets and dropping those few coins we feel satisfied with ourselves and our good deed for the day rather than brimming with rage that our society of such affluence does not provide the affordable housing, living wage jobs, and basic...
...group also runs an investment game in which students invest a hypothetical $100,000 in stocks of their choice and vie for their portfolio's top performance...
...generate $63 million in revenues, some $17 million of which will go to the PGA of America and $5 million to $6 million of which will go to the host club. The U.S. players, meanwhile, each get a $5,000 stipend, which is clearly unfair, whether they plan to invest it in more greater-Orlando real estate or, as Woods and Duval nobly aver, in worthy causes...
Venture capital funds have been very successful over the last year. But Harvard was not able to invest in them to the extent it would have liked, Meyer said...
Those policies hit Harvard especially hard, Meyer said. Since the Harvard endowment is so large, the small amounts the school was able to invest in venture capital funds had much less impact on Harvard's total holdings...