Word: alma
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...assured of continuing support for the many University administrators--in the style to which they have grown accustomed. Now, at last, this profitable enterprise will free the hard-pressed alumni, many with children to send to college, from the necessity of giving financial aid to their alma mater...
...lower than normal at the time the mortgage starts, but by the sixth year it would be $568, or $54 higher. These loans have become increasingly popular, but many families may find that their incomes do not rise as fast as their payments. Warns Atlanta Real Estate Broker Alma Fuller: "This kind of mortgage is fine for a doctor just going into practice, but in general it's a very dangerous...
Villers said this week that although Automatix had enough original investors, he was "delighted" to let his alma mater in on the deal. "We expect Automatix to grow from zero to $50 million in a year," Villers said...
...Bryant returned to his alma mater, which had floundered through four dismal seasons. Before the Auburn game that year, he told the Touchdown Club in Birmingham: "Gentlemen, I wouldn't bet anything but Coca-Cola on tomorrow's game. Next year you can bet a fifth of whisky. And the year after that you can mortgage the damn house." Bryant was right. A bettor would have lost a Coke that first year (Auburn won, 14-8), but the mortgages were safe: Alabama took the next four games in the series without allowing a point...
Bryant was settling down and building an athletic empire at his alma mater. Last year Alabama spent some $5 million on sports, and its athletic budget was still comfortably in the black. A $5 million fieldhouse, a $2 million track stadium and a new $2.4 million swimming and diving center were financed by football profits. Acres of tennis courts and other recreational facilities for students have been constructed from the vast haul of television royalties and bowl-appearance money earned by Bryant's teams...