Word: accounting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...most memorable experience connected with phonathons came, not during the actual calling, but the next day. During lunch with some friends at the Faculty Club, most of them retired faculty members and administrators, I shared with them an account of my efforts to raise money. To my consternation, a couple of them accused me of having engaged in a useless, if not harmful, activity. They made two main points: Harvard already has too much money; and the University wastes a lot of what...
...living wage rate, which would not apply to people working for some types of businesses such as nonprofits, would be recalculated every year to account for inflation...
...possible to have 3,600 corporations and no visible presence? Easy. All the real work is still performed back in the U.S. The companies merely hire a local firm to maintain their records, open a bank account, conduct that annual board meeting and provide an offshore postal address. "FSCs are transparent companies," says a longtime agent on St. Thomas. "They don't really exist." To comply with the law, companies send their already processed sales invoices, brochures and other export literature in boxes to St. Thomas for mailing. Perhaps 50 islanders, mostly low-salaried clerical help, work...
...personal-savings rate hit an all-time monthly low of -0.2%, the Commerce Department said last week. That means we're spending (on credit or from savings) more than we're earning. One easy remedy: have your next raise automatically deducted from paychecks into a savings or investment account...
...composing in the '50s after several years with Nadia "a lot of people thought of the necessity of writing American works" that would be accessible and relevant to American audiences. Along these lines, a friend suggested that he write an opera based upon Ethan Frome--Edith Wharton's tragic account of forbidden love set in frigid Starkfield, Mass. Allanbrook wrote the opera in Naples in 1951 on the continuation of a Fulbright scholarship that allowed him to go to the opera at Santo Carlo every weekend. A friend he met at Harvard, John Hart '48 (who would later...