Word: betterment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...surface at Boston Garden is small and rough. Skating skills, a Harvard staple, are not as important as bruising skills. A hockey maxim: bigger players are better on a small ice surface. And B.C. is bigger...
More than risky, it seems downright foolish to put an entire company on the line for no better reason than abject short-term greed; still, buyouts are popular among today's large-scale financiers, people who are no longer innovative entrepreneurs who build companies from scratch, but tricky accountants who raise dividends any way they can. Now, following the example of Ross Johnson, the chief executive officer of RJR who tried to take over the company for himself, they don't work for the stockholders--they work for themselves...
...leveraged buyouts have caused the level of business debt to double to more than $1.8 trillion in the past five years, the company employees who are often either laid off or uprooted across the country by the restructuring process, and the consumers, who don't get new products at better prices, but the same products at higher prices because a hostilely-bought company has to use all available funds to pay off billions in debt rather than research and marketing. But gee, leveraged buyouts sure make money for the people who organize the deals. If all Ross Johnson's plans...
WHILE officials have said that the house system and the overall rating of Harvard experience fared better than it has in previous surveys, the results already released clearly indicate that some changes are needed. Most students responding said they did not find the guide to houses useful, and a large number of women answered that they were victims of unwanted sexual attention. Students also raised questions about the role of advising in the houses...
...said that AFSCME contracts often include provisions for better lighting in parking lots and in buildings, more guards in the buildings and escort services or offers of cab fare home for employees who work at night...