Word: enrichment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...effects of intercollegiate athletics on the Harvard community. He contrasts the "frivolous" support of the student body for our athletic teams to the "non-frivolous" student activities undertaken by the remaining (presumably serious) students at this university. He rests on the unspoken truism that sports do little to enrich the spectator because they do not stimulate the mind. It is very hard to successfully argue the merits of football against ballet, hockey against drama, sweat against culture. I will not attempt to compare a wrestling match to a pas de deux, but I would submit that one who views either...
...offering will enrich Chairman William Gates, 30, the boy wonder who dropped his undergraduate studies at Harvard in 1975 to help start Microsoft, which produces best-selling business software for IBM and Apple personal computers as well as the popular computer game Flight Simulator. If the stock goes for $19, his 45% holding in Microsoft will be worth $211 million...
...trying to see how I can enrich undergraduate life," Epps said. "I've always hoped extracurricular life will complement curricular life...
...promising an imminent upturn in the Philippine economy and a decline in the strength of Communist insurgents. Marcos took refuge in dubious legal arguments to defend the 1973 constitution, tailored to legitimize the powers he had seized under martial law, and denied that he had used his authority to enrich a small circle of friends. Only later, at a dinner that evening, did he admit that "we have committed some errors." Excerpts from the two-hour session...
...newest wave raises many questions: How many immigrants can the country absorb and at what rate? How much unskilled labor does a high-tech society need? Do illegals drain the economy or enrich it? Do newcomers gain their foothold at the expense of the poor and the black? Is it either possible or desirable to assimilate large numbers of immigrants from different races, languages and cultures? Will the advantages of diversity be outweighed by the dangers of separatism and conflict...