Word: bonde
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard management has pushed for tighter financial management, investment of 40 percent of the endowment in the fixed income securities bond market, and a long-term approach to the University's fiscal problems. All these moves add up to Harvard's surplus...
Putnam said that Harvard has out-performed every major institutional account in the country, including Princeton and the Ford Foundation, by investing in the bond market...
Princeton and the Ford Foundation, which have traditionally performed very well, invest only 20 per cent in bonds, Putnam said. Harvard, by investing 40 per cent, took advantage of both the good bond market this past fiscal year and the security that the safer fixed income securities offer...
...that it was possible to change despite deeply held prejudices -and to achieve at least the beginnings of racial amity. Other parts of the U.S., without consciously turning to the South, began to long for some of its values: family, community, roots. There was a new, only half-understood bond of sympathy between the only part of America ever to have lost a war and other Americans who had met their first defeat in Viet Nam. Summing up the Southern ability to outlast adversity, William Faulkner declared in his Nobel Prize acceptance speech: "I decline to accept...
Nowhere is the bond more visible than in Tuscaloosa, home of the University of Alabama and Paul ("Bear") Bryant's mighty Crimson Tide. Bryant's teams have a record of 18 straight winning seasons, nine Southeastern Conference championships, including five in a row, three national rankings as No. 1, 17 trips to postseason bowls-and stunning defeats in their opening games for two straight seasons...