Word: instead
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...still think this place doesn't sound enough like Harvard, Inc. instead of Harvard U., you'll be happy to hear that the University has its own Merrill Lynch of sorts: the Harvard Management Co. (HMC). HMC has made the University a major player in the stock market, as well as in high-risk fields such as venture capital and lever-aged buyouts. Its young-turk money managers (think of Charlie Sheen in the movie Wall Street) pull down salaries of more than $1 million a year. This fall, HMC will have a new president, Jack R. Meyer...
...basically a business-as-usual document," said Philip Dowds, who has been among the leaders of the anti-development forces. Activists specificallycited a "loophole" that would allow city officialsto approve further development merely by intiatinglegal action to remove illegal spaces instead offorcing officials to wait until those spaces hadactually been removed...
...awards try to recognize creative solutions to local problems, solutions that can be broadly applied to nationwide concerns, said Marc D. Zegans, one of the competition's administrators. "We're trying to learn from success instead of failure...
...instead, I am going to tell other long and drawn out stories about my first year at school--a year that arguably was the turning point of my life. When I entered my first year, I was a maladjusted, sexually frustrated 17-year-old whose idea of a good time was a night of computer games. And when my first year ended? Well, I could legally vote--and that's probably about...
...power terms, Gorbachev has already moved on. With the formal abolition of the party's leading role last March, the Communists lost their monopoly on political action. The Politburo, which once decided all vital issues, now % meets only about once a month instead of weekly and deals exclusively with party business, not matters of state. Gorbachev is the Executive President of the U.S.S.R., and decisions lie with him, his government and the parliament. To replace the counsel formerly provided by the Politburo, he has created a Presidential Council with 16 members...