Word: buy
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...money "unrestricted income," to differentiate it from most of the endowment, which is restricted by its donors for specific purposes. This means that even though Harvard has enough money in its endowment to, say, pay every American $20, run Eastern Airlines and give the unions lots of money, or buy a fleet of Stealth B-2 bombers, the University cannot: a) renovate the stinking bathroom in your suite, b) pay junior faculty more since they won't be getting tenure anyway, c) subsidize extracurricular or certain academic programs...
Cleary was accompanied by the entire Harvard hockey team, all of whom had to buy their own tickets...
...masters of our own castle," says Valentina Murinas, 50, the factory's chief economist. Elektrosila's new spirit of enterprise extends to its rank-and-file workers, who now receive pay raises based on the plant's profitability. Next year they may be able to buy shares in an employee stock-ownership plan...
...explore new manufacturing methods. They plan to sell their equipment in package deals so that customers can sign up for an entire power plant with a single stroke of the pen. Elektrosila hopes for a substantial boost in exports to raise the foreign currency the plant needs to buy up-to-date Western machinery. At the moment the factory has only 7 million rubles ($11.2 million) in hard currency, and "one good machine tool costs about 2 million rubles," says economist Murinas...
...what we are doing is important to those around us. This has made the magazine not just stronger but more self-confident. At the beginning of 1986 Ogonyok had fewer than 300,000 subscribers. By last January we had more than 3 million. Today it is virtually impossible to buy Ogonyok at the newsstand. Our print run is clearly not enough to satisfy demand, but official promises to allow us a larger circulation have so far not been realized. There is a very special feeling about being part of a process that is of your own making, rather than...