Word: saving
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...just this sort of efficiency that enabled Cohen to save Perspective from its dire financial straits. During the interview, he tosses about budget figures for the liberal monthly and other publications the way social climbers drop names...
...MILLS and the men's soccer team, which stumbled through a 4-3 Ivy season. The women's soccer team, on the other hand, come within four overtime minutes and one goal of its first-ever Ivy title behind strong goaltending by junior BETH REILLY, who skies for a save against Cornell. KATIE ORENSTEIN and the women's swimming team, looking ahead to defending its Eastern title, got upset by Princeton at Blodgett in February. The Crimson also would drop Easterns to Penn State. Freshman ERIKA ELMUTS shows off her backhand during the Crimson's eighth consecutive Ivy-title winning...
Tomorrow: You graduate from Harvard. You're in the hock more than $10,000 in student loans. You take that high-paying job "for just a couple of years, until I can get myself out of debt and save some money." You aren't really that excited about bond trading, investment banking, corporate law, consulting or whatever. But then again, who is? Besides, the money is good. Damn good...
WHAT'S scary is that some people really want to believe the We Decade will save the world. But despite a few positive developments, "We issues" are apolitical. New trendy issues cover up longstanding questions of social inequity. Being "provolunteerism,"--like President Bush is--seems to mean cutting down on the budget for trained teachers, social workers and hospital translators...
...Decade might mean the "activist '90s," but activism, by today's standards, is synonymous with environmentalism. Care about the air. Save the trees. This was the first year when people in your dorm yelled at you for tossing a bottle in the garbage can instead of the recycling bin. We're in our unselfish phase, but it is more acceptable to worry about the increasing hole in the ozone layer than to think about, say, shrinking welfare and Medicaid benefits...