Word: bulled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...market, with sluggish years balancing out against booms. Since 1973, the endowment has grown by more than 10 percent in five of 11 years; Harvard took a fall in 1973 when it lost 10.1 percent, but last year the University registered its most lucrative year ever--riding the bull market of 1982. Harvard scored $700 million in gains, boosting the endowment to $2.4 billion, the highest in the nation...
Certainly Harvard's investors enjoyed what was probably their best year ever. Riding the tail-end of the great bull market of 1982, the Harvard Management Company, which manages the University's endowment, boosted Harvard's bank account from $1.7 billion to $2.4 billion, the largest in American academia. Harvard plunged heavily into the stock market at one point almost 80 percent of the endowment was in equities. But the University in December shifted $300 million from stocks to bonds...
...there were things not talked about, either in our late night bull sessions in the dorm smokers, or at the much franker evenings at The Crimson. We never mentioned homosexuality. The tragedy of this ignorance was brought home to me when a good friend committed sulcide on her discovery that her boy friend was a homosexual. Sex was private, surreptitious with complex arrangements, at least from a girl's point of view. Even when we knew a sexual relation existed, we did not talk about it. The complexity gave many Radcliffe girls an easy excuse to postpone such activities, with...
DIED. Peter Bull, 72, bristling, beetle-browed British character actor most memorable in Broadway's The Lady's Not for Burning and Luther and cinema's Tom Jones and Dr. Strangelove; of a heart attack; in London. Bull was known as one of the world's great arctophiles (Teddy bear lovers), owning more than 200 of the lovable furry beasts, and publishing two definitive books (Bear with Me, 1969, and Peter Bull's Book of Teddy Bears, 1976) on their history and charms...
...course, the highlighter pen is not the only device used to destroy Harvard's books. Some annotaters opt for the more efficient method of making brackets in the margins--which at least annoys future readers a little less. Others add their own insights. "This is stupid," or "Imperialistic bull"--as if to clue in the world as to the true nature of a particular passage...