Word: assets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...treasurer now broadly oversees the management company on behalf of the Corporation and advises Harvard on budgeting and major asset purchases...
...revenues, which might otherwise languish in non-interest-bearing checking accounts or small savings accounts that today typically earn only 5¼% interest. Since March 1982, a number of districts have been pooling their tax receipts and investing the resulting millions of dollars in the Pennsylvania School District Liquid Asset Fund. The fund buys U.S. and state government securities, Treasury notes and bonds for example, earning interest of about 10%. Result: this year the school fund raised $15.5 million in interest for its member districts. Voters are happy because the earnings keep property tax increases down. Nor are the school...
...program's asset is that it's [made up of] students who are sympathetic to other students' needs and will sit down and talk without an appointment," says another counselor who wished to be anonymous...
Indeed, Smith sees its older students as such a positive asset that it is constantly enlarging the program: it began with just 16 women and this academic year has an enrollment of 161. Of the 82 potential Adas who applied to Smith this year, only 61 were accepted, and 46 are currently enrolled. Entry to the program is based on previous academic performance, an autobiographical essay and letters of recommendation...
...Wall Street analysts can have a narcotic effect. Asked to explain his formula for success, he admits that "it isn't my charisma." AT&T insiders say he hides his emotions and signals distress only by growing ominously silent. On balance, that stolid style has been an asset. Says Rawleigh Warner Jr., chairman of Mobil and an AT&T director: "He's equitable, and he doesn't lose his cool. There are no highs or lows, just steadiness." Brown, who lives in Princeton, N.J., with his second wife, Ann Lee, works off much of his tension...