Word: approachement
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fact is, that with real expenses rising linearly and the investments rising exponentially, Harvard cannot lose over time by allowing the endowment to shoulder more of the burden which student fees now carry....The lowered growth rate will over time approach the old higher rate asymptotically...
...this time, another portly type had materialized from behind that damn counter. A different approach: fatherly. He came up and, emphasizing his points with pats on the shoulder, issued the ultimate rebuttal. "Son, there are ten thousand every year who don't get their bill. So the Commonwealth passed a law requiring everyone to come in and ask for his bill. So you've got no legal leg to stand on. And if you don't pay, you can never register a vehicle here again...
...most successful commercial products of West German studios have been what the men in Munich call Aufklaerungsfilme (enlightenment movies). In essence, these are illustrated hygiene lectures about the varieties of sexual experience, padded out to feature length with one-dimensional plots. Unlike conventional grind-circuit skin shows, enlightenment movies approach sex with Teutonic seriousness, even though their accounts of reproduction and related matters are illustrated with explicit nude sequences. In Helga, the first Aufklaerungsfilm to be shown in the U.S., a robust young mother emerges from her shower just as her towheaded son enters the room to ask: "Where...
...other words, the way to approach this game is with the same scenario in mind that you thought there would be at the beginning of the season. Harvard goes into the Stadium as the underdog spoiler. Let me tell you all the great things that Harvard can spoil...
...THAT we have established that Harvard has some great things to ruin, we must answer the question, Why ruin? In the existential phenomenological context of things (the only way we approach anything in the sporting world), destroying has some magnificent benefits that accomplishing cannot touch. First, destroying is final and absolute. Once all these Yale streaks and things are destroyed, they cannot happen again. Second, and most important, destroying is a wonderfully exhilarating thing to do--it is mischievous and healthy, It moves the spirit and the soul--it is direct, concrete and eternal...