Word: benefited
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...According to Cooke, the letter should outline the purpose of the group and how office space will benefit its activities...
...also perceive, and these are just my untutored perceptions in our generally materialistic society, a lawyerly, understandable, but morally untenable desire to hold on to money that was originally given to benefit a different Radcliffe. The Radcliffe endowment has now reached $200 million-peanuts next to Harvard's $10 billion but pretty healthy for a non-college. Radcliffe has a bigger endowment than two-thirds of U.S. colleges and universities, according to the Chronicle of Higher Education...
...other hand, though, March and others acknowledge that Radcliffe's programs offer advantages that even Harvard's programs sometimes can't--like intimate size and personal contact with administrators--and from which male students might also benefit...
What can you do? Rates may be near a peak. If so, this is a good time to put any sideline cash into stocks or bonds, both of which will benefit if rates stabilize or head lower. If you can put off borrowing money, do so. If not, the risk is that rates keep moving up, in which case stocks and bonds are vulnerable and your loan gets even more expensive. Rising rates smack growth stocks the hardest. So one hedge is to shift from stocks that typically trade at 30 to 70 times earnings (many tech stocks) to value...
...combination with a nicotine patch, works about twice as well as the patch alone. Smokers in the study were treated for nine weeks; after a year 16% of those using just the patch were smoke-free, in contrast to 30% who took Zyban and 35% using both. An added benefit of the combo: it can prevent weight gain--at least early on--that often accompanies quitting...