Word: arrays
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...Harvard leverages its balance sheet," explains Cabot of these obscure but low-risk strategies. But he insists that the Management Company's array of unconventional investments will always represent only a minor portion of the endowment. Harvard's search for new fiduciary outlets is done, he says, in the hope that one or two will develop into lucrative but prudent resources. This appears to be the case with real estate, venture capital, and to an extent, the options program. Other ventures, like stock lending, have bottomed out, and Harvard has ignored some areas--oil rights, foreign stocks, commodities--altogether...
Then there is sex. Early in the novel, Eddie apologizes for his tendency to fantasize about store mannequins: "I'm not fucking much." Yet he engages in varying forms of sexual activity with a startling array of partners--with rich women, poor women, ugly men, handsome men, old and young, with bums he meets in parking lots at night, with everyone, in fact, but his ex-wife Elena, the only one of these who excites, pains, and motivates him. When Elena, a failed and bitchy fashion model who cares for nothing but lovers and negligee, finally shows...
...they were publishing a paper for readers who wanted to supplement their regular news diet with a dose of Americana. Each day, the paper offers the weather, news and sports from all 50 states in addition to the day's big, national news stories, human interest features and an array of statistics displayed in easy-to-read charts. No other newspaper strikes the same enticing balance between being informative and easily readable...
Neither the Ford Foundation nor anyone else is proposing that community colleges drop the impressive array of vocational courses that they have developed over the years. Indeed, the career training offered by the schools is considered more important than ever in the face of persistently high unemployment and increased industrial demand for workers with technical skills. But something clearly had to be done to improve academic instruction. All too often, students who do transfer to four-year colleges are poorly prepared. The University of California, for instance, has had 30% of its transfer students drop out before...
Such desperation has spurred the ingenuity of tinkerers and entrepreneurs, who are bringing out an astonishing array of chairs, pillows, massagers, stimulators and other back aids. The devices can now be found not only in medical-supply stores but also in sporting-goods and health-food shops and even department stores. In Needham Heights, Mass., a Boston suburb, Jeffrey Grossman has opened the Back Store, which he claims is "the first shop in the country to specialize solely in back-relief equipment." In its first nine months, he says, the one-room operation had sales of $500,000. Grossman predicts...