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Many firms sell lots for 20 to 30 times what they originally paid to acquire them and spend fully one-third of their revenues on sales promotion; their pretax profits range upward from 30% of revenues on land sales...
...years ago I could just pick up the phone and call someone," Alevizos said. "Now, there are just too many." He said one reason for the upward trend in "high-risk borrowers" has been the expanded enrollment in the College...
...with a $1,000,000 settlement. And if you still need convincing -- though perhaps this isn't playing fair -- just take a look at the guy. Notice the runty size, the duck waddle of a walk, the well-tinted hairdo sculpted to his face, the elfish upward twist of the eyebrows. It's as if this Battle had got its sexes mixed up. If this is the figurehead of sexism, the tough-skinned Tarzan of the hour, well then, things have changed...
...addition, Harvard ROTC failed to affect either the ultimate composition of the army or of the Harvard student body. Few Harvard cadets received any substantial ROTC scholarship, and virtually no ROTC scholarships are granted for need. Thus, the program promoted, and would continue to promote, little upward mobility -- either at Harvard or in the military itself...
...addition, Harvard ROTC failed to affect either the ultimate composition of the army or of the Harvard student body. Few Harvard cadets received any substantial ROTC scholarship, and virtually no ROTC scholarships are granted for need. Thus, the program promoted, and would continue to promote, little upward mobility -- either at Harvard or in the military itself...