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...really gave the big bucks. While Sir Matthew Holworthy had a prominent building named in his honor for a measly 1,000 English pounds in 1678, these days a mere self-titled professor chair takes a $3.5 million donation. Even that though, seems a trifle compared to the chunk of change John L. Loeb '24, LLD `71 (Hon.) and Frances "Peter" Lehman Loeb handed over in a lump sum in 1994: a whopping $70.5 million...
...potential absence takes a big chunk out of the second scoring line...
...adopt his budget, but their skepticism pales against that of the IMF. "The Russian budget is an exercise in virtual reality, with a large blank they're assuming will be filled by the IMF," says TIME Moscow bureau chief Paul Quinn-Judge. "Everything hinges on receiving a massive chunk of aid, but the IMF is unimpressed by this exercise in wishful thinking...
With games averaging two hours, players said they were a little worried that the tournament took a good chunk of time out of a day that perhaps could be better spent studying for finals...
...Three hours is quite a chunk of the day. It complicates a schedule but it helps organize. You learn to make use of time between any given priority," Syed said...