Word: beefing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have to take exams"). One sits at a chair and looks out the window. Cambridge does not even have the grace to be covered with snow ("What if Harry Levin actually wrote the plays of Shakespeare?"). Sulphur-laden ice spreads like cancer over the Charles and Roast Beef Specials cost 60c ("If the Atlantic rose a few inches, Boston would be devastated and there wouldn't be any exams...
Predictably, private colleges are trying to beef up endowments and other non-tuition income. For many, the paradigm is Stanford, which in 1977 completed a five-year campaign that raised $304 million-then a record for private institutions. Almost all of the larger schools seem to be planning or conducting the biggest fund drives in their history. Harvard College plans to launch a campaign this summer whose goal is likely to be at least $200 million and which will be coordinated by 100 paid staffers. The half-dozen most ambitious drives currently under way (see box) are seeking a combined...
...lived regally in a 61-room mansion named Casa Encantata in the Bel-Air area of Los Angeles, where 19 servants filled his every need, including buying his clothes. Yet Hilton retained an almost childlike wonder at the world around him. He also had some simple tastes, preferring corned beef hash or pork chops to any of the fancified dishes served in his hotels...
...Beef jumps over the moon
Because ranchers have been reducing their herds (down from 132 million cattle to 111 million in the past four years), beef production in 1979 will decrease from 24.3 billion lbs. to 23.1 billion. That means, as President Richard Lyng of the American Meat Institute warned last week, that the price of hamburger could go up by 40? to 50? per lb. and reach as much as $1.80 by early summer...