Word: debts
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...once Oriol received her HMS diploma, her sincere desire to help neighborhoods did not dissolve. Though the response of many newly-annointed doctors who are staggering under years of debt might be to give up their plans to work in poor neighborhoods for virtually no pay, Oriol still pursued her ideals. After years of working with residents in the neighborhoods, Oriol got rolling The Family Van, a mobile healthcare and education center bringing health and social services to Boston's urban communities...
Students may be attracted to recruiting by one of two things, money or prestige. Those who see money as the badge of success have long been criticized in these pages. And everyone can be sensitive to those who pursue these jobs to alleviate debt. But those who see prestige as the badge of success in their search for the Harvard of jobs--the perfect company name to put on their resume above their college degree, for example--are equally misguided. When we graduated from high school, our friends and relatives pledged to keep our autographs for that bright day when...
After studying in Switzerland and Germany, the cosmopolitan young Morgan arrived on Wall Street in 1857, serving as agent for his father Junius Spencer Morgan, who had taken over a London merchant bank. Though Pierpont participated in refinancing the Civil War debt in the 1870s, he acquired true imperial status in underwriting America's railroads...
...from the domestic construction business for 10 years. Within four years, the ITT stock, which he had been using as collateral to build subdivisions in places like Iran, Venezuela and Nigeria, lost 90% of its value. When those foreign projects foundered, he was left with millions of dollars in debt...
...that Watson went home to was an American icon. It was the outgrowth of a debt-ridden maker of scales, time clocks and accounting machines that his father took charge of in 1914--the year Tom Jr. was born. The elder Watson created a fanatically loyal work force at IBM--the company's name since 1924--hanging THINK signs everywhere, leading employee sing-alongs (corporate anthem: Hail to IBM) and dictating everything from office attire (white shirt, dark suit) to policies on smoking and drinking (forbidden on the job and strongly discouraged off it). IBM dominated the market for punch...