Word: closers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...December 2, 1998: Buffeted by a bull market and a strong economy, Harvard announced that it would add $95 million of endowment money to its operating budget for 1999. With the increase, the endowment payout moved closer to its traditional 4.5 percent, up from a historic low of 3.3 percent...
...both hail, looks a lot like the prep schools that feed students to Ivy League universities with machine-like precision. The similarities end there. It's a good school, but while Harvard professes to be in the business of ferreting out "Veritas," Wooster strives for something a little closer to kindness. The school's motto, familiar to Christians and Communists alike reads, translated from Latin, "From each according to his ability, to each according to his need." It doesn't always work, but they try. Backed up by small class sizes as well as a "self-help" system in which...
When student protestors took over University Hall in 1969, Archie C. Epps III was a "baby dean" in the College administration, closer in age to many of the protestors than to the administrators who called in the police to eject them...
...hillside 22 sec. after lift-off and exploded, raining flaming rocket fuel and red-hot shards of the 3-ton satellite on a nearby village. China initially said six villagers choked or burned to death, and later upped the number to 56, but U.S. estimates put the fatalities closer...
Accordingly, his document commits Reform to continuous study of "the whole array of mitzvoth," acknowledging that certain of them "demand renewed attention." Studded with Hebrew, it recommends study of the language "that we may draw closer to our people's sacred texts." Menitoff describes it as a "radical break...