Word: accountants
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Most plans take social security into account. Before 1986, the Harvard pension was calculated and then 80 percent of an employee's social security was deducted. Now we take a lesser cut of social security," said Joan Bruce, who is in charge of employee benefits. Bruce adds that Harvard's social security plan is viewed by other employers in the Boston area as "generous...
...automatic rifles jammed, canteens burst, blood plasma froze ! solid. The enemy attacked in overwhelming numbers, blowing horns and letting out blood-curdling whoops. Such was the situation faced by U.S. infantrymen in the early days of the Korean War. No wonder Military Historian Clay Blair, in this meticulously documented account, describes their initial performance as miserable...
...throwing down their weapons and fleeing, while valorous white officers tried to stem the retreat. That view, argues Blair, is inaccurate and blatantly racist. It arose, he suggests, from disgruntled and sometimes incompetent white officers, and was uncritically absorbed by Army historians. For example, Blair cites the scathing official account of the all-black 24th Infantry Regiment's defeat at Battle Mountain in August 1950. Several white regiments, he asserts, fared equally poorly in early battles but are not denigrated in official histories. Such prejudice, Blair says, is unworthy of the government...
...week earlier, complying with a directive from Australian stock exchanges for all companies to disclose the damages they suffered in the crash, Holmes a Court gave a stunning account of his companies' net losses, now estimated at $1 billion. Holmes a Court described how his principal companies -- Bell Group, Bell Resources and J.N. Taylor Holdings -- suffered an avalanche of falling stock prices in their wide holdings in energy, banking, mining and retailing. As the Holmes a Court companies took losses on these investments, their own shares collapsed as well. The stock-market value of the Holmes a Court corporations plunged...
...stretch out the remainder, the PBH cabinet plans to pull only $15,000 from the account and to compensate for the decreased revenue by reducing its program grants, Truong said. He said the cabinet plans to exhaust the fund over the next two years, after which the endowment money will provide income for the association...