Word: programing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard began the program, known as the Cambridge Option Plan, in 1978 to attract professors and other teaching personnel to Cambridge despite prevailing high housing costs...
...effort to protect neighbors of Harvard professors from paying artificially inflated property taxes, the Cambridge City Council decided last night to ask the University for defailed information about its long-term low interest mortgage loan program...
...into the executive suite, the market value of an M.B.A. is a matter of sharp debate. Typical of the bears is Peter Storer, chairman of the Miami-based Storer Broadcasting Corp.: "The M.B.A. is just not meaningful in our business. The guy who has gone through that program obviously has considerable academic brains, but the fact that he might make a great banker does not mean that we are going to hire him." Considerably more bullish is John Fery, a Stanford M.B.A. who is now chairman of Boise Cascade: "I'm a strong supporter of the M.B.A. degree...
...your imagination run about what we're going to be doing." The amalgam's first offering is likely to be a cash management account based on Shearson's money-market funds and similar to one created by Merrill Lynch in 1977. Under that program, customers with at least $20,000 in securities or cash in an account can put that cash into money-market funds, which currently earn about 14% interest. Customers can then use special Visa cards or checks issued through Merrill Lynch in stores, restaurants or anywhere else. Says Weill: "We can make the cash...
...Quixote fan dance, the castanets number, the latest Russian, the Japanese ballerina who can hold a pose on point till intermission? Their places were taken by regular members of the company, and fewer than half the top box office names even performed. There were just four dances on the program and no encores. Until Twyla Tharp's roof-raising Push Comes to Shove, the audience seemed in shock. They were learning what the A.B.T. company discovered several months ago: when Mikhail Baryshnikov took over as artistic director, he wanted changes and he meant business...