Word: chip
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...used to be that a University could simply lay its endowment into bonds or a few good blue-chip stocks, and Harvard was no exception. But during the last decade, investing has become a frenzied, anxious business, and the potential for overnight disaster strikes most acutely at institutions like Harvard that rely on their endowment to provide much of their income...
Many of Benton's clients are from large corporations, and about 75% are men. Executives from such blue-chip firms as Xerox, Union Carbide and Citicorp have signed up without informing their bosses. Almost everyone praises Benton. "She's fabulous," says Pam Crowson-Brash, an account executive at the Foote, Cone & Belding ad agency in Chicago. "I feel I have an advantage over anyone who hasn't taken her course...
...strikes one note over and over again--the personal. She remains determinedly anecdotal, specific, and sardonic throughout: on Canadian poets, on Canadian-American relations in the 1980s, on being a woman writer, on her own attackers. If you were one of her targets, you might say she had a chip on her shoulder...
...played by the gifted actor-director-choreographer John Lone). But once Hutton and the creature establish contact, moviegoers must make a great leap of faith, or surrender to the influence of an illegal hallucinogen, to watch the proceedings with a straight face. By then Director Fred Schepisi and Screenwriters Chip Proser and John Drimmer have all surrendered to Neanderthal sentimentality, and the rest is silliness...
Millionaire ($69.95). Marketed by Blue Chip Software of Woodland Hills, Calif, this program is used in a dozen colleges and high schools to teach students how the stock market works. At the start of each game, a player is given $10,000 and is then required to make investment decisions based on a continuous stream of financial information, such as market changes and other business developments. The player wins by amassing $1 million in theoretical profits; he loses when he goes broke...