Word: campaigns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...would never have guessed that election time is still more than a year away, since Republican presidential hopefuls Sen. Howard H. Baker Jr. (R-Tenn.) and George H.W. Bush yesterday swept through Boston on short campaign hops...
Baker said he would spell out his program for launching "a new generation of confidence" during the upcoming campaign. "Unlike others in the past, I will not deal in promises. I do not ask you to trust me; I ask you to judge me. Promises are cheap, but America needs performance," Baker said...
...reason Harvard can attract the kind of huge gifts it is counting on during its five-year, $250 million Harvard Campaign is its "good aura of investment management," Putnam says. "Alumni will only give when they think their money will be managed well--people will set up trust funds for Yale," putting a gift in a private manager's hands and sending Yale the interest, he says. But he adds that Yale's "aura" is worse than it deserves...
...matter what choices Harvard makes in the stock/bond mix, however, and no matter how successful HMC is in increasing annual income from the endowment, inflation stands in the wings ready to devour the most impressive investment record. Even the hundreds of millions the Harvard Campaign will tack on to the endowment will only delay the day of reckoning if double-digit inflation continues. In years of 10 to 12 per cent inflation, like 1974 or this year, the real value of the endowment will fall despite the best record in the stock and bond markets...
...fall season enabled us to get to know our weaknesses," Felske said of a campaign which included wins at the Greater Boston and Mass. State Championships and a second-place finish in the New Englands. "We are stronger than we have ever been," Felske added with pride...