Word: assets
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...greatest asset we have are human beings and we have to invest in them," he said...
Last week I ran into a hilarious thread on the Internet newsgroup harvard.general about the ever-difficult problem of admitting to acquaintances just where we go to school. For me, there are times when proudly declaring "I go to Harvard" is an asset, but more often than not, especially at home, it causes raised eyebrows, quick judgments, and the mocking "Ha-vaad" accent. I don't think my own mother has ever voluntarily told anyone in Baltimore where I go to college, except to say, "She goes to school in Boston." Admittedly, I've fallen prey to using this line...
...Dole says he's out to close the gender gap, yet his campaign is not using its greatest asset with working women: Liddy. Since her boffo show in San Diego, Elizabeth has gone under the national radar. She spends most of her time in places like Dover, Delaware, and Knoxville, Tennessee--not exactly major markets. She makes a fleeting appearance in one ad. The press is usually not allowed on her plane. What's more, she's rarely at her husband's side. And when she is, she almost never makes any remarks. The campaign says that Elizabeth will...
Many of the students are learning disabled or emotionally handicapped, but Rollins said he tries to turn this liability into an asset...
...Some of the funds were not doing as well as they ought to have been, and many were wandering far from their ostensible mandates. The Blue Chip Growth Fund, for example, was heavily invested in small and midsize companies. (Its manager, Michael Gordon, left Fidelity to work with Vinik.) Asset Manager, which was supposed to be a low-risk diversified fund, had 18% of its holdings in Mexican debt...