Word: approaches
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...need to protect the endowment's purchasing power from market and inflation fluctuations can also guide the way Harvard invests. "Universities live to a certain extent off endowments," says Nicholas Potter, head of investments for J. P. Morgan and Company. "They take a different approach than pension funds and tend to be more conservative because they can't take risks in the long term...
...first attempt at 5-ft., 9-in., Buchen stumbled on the approach. Sugrue followed, sailing easily over the standard. Buchen cleared the height on her second attempt, but trailed by one miss...
...STATISTICAL approach, this perspective of Harvard history works quite well. That the Harvard Corporation recovered from the financial catastrophe of President Kirkland's administration (1810--1828) is a credit to the school's frugal Puritan origins. However, this same New England ethnocentrism accounts for the disturbing story of minority enrollment at the College...
That sudden departure drove home the one-track, hidden purpose of his cheerful approach. I felt turned off, pissed off, and used. He hadn't really cared about us as people, or even as possibly interesting lunchtime companions; John wanted recruits. That, alone, is fine...
Explaining the community's approach to monastic life in the 1980s, Father Martin Smith, acting Father Superior, says, "We need to be honest about the patterns of twentieth century day as opposed to ninth century traditions, to be much more comfortable wearing everyday clothes [outside the monastery] while wearing a habit while we're in community, not using the symbol, as it rings false...