Word: deficits
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...children showed a 6.2 point I.Q. deficit, and were up to a year behind in word and reading comprehension...
...America needs baseball. In an age when attention deficit disorder reigns supreme and the images on our television screens race by our brains in fractions of a second, baseball teaches patience. The fielders' changing positions, the batter's fixed stare and the catcher's mysterious signs all mold attention to detail. Baseball can be the antidote to our frenetic and fast-paced culture. If baseball will build us a new home, we will most surely come...
...very different endowments--like Harvard, with more than $9 billion, and Penn, with just over $2 billion--charge roughly the same tuition--or just exactly where this vast torrent of tax-free revenue goes. Should it matter to parents of incoming Penn students that tuition helps cover the annual deficit at its faculty club, which in past years has reached $700,000, and contributes toward the average $121,000 in compensation that Penn pays its professors, including a tuition-reimbursement program that lets professors send their children to Penn or anywhere else at a steep discount equivalent to half...
Penn was in a bind. It was running at a deficit, but to avoid losing its place in the Ivies, it had to spend heavily to recruit and keep the best faculty and meet the growing demand by students for more course choices, more diversity, more access to professors and--one of the most salient trends of the post-'60s student body--more amenities, including comfy dorms, indoor tennis courts and pools. Meyerson had been acting chancellor at Berkeley during the height of student unrest. At Penn, he says, "the worst sit-in I experienced was when we tried...
...expenses totaling $182.8 million, which is more than its undergraduates paid in tuition. But its annual report for the same period, compiled under a different set of accounting rules, shows a surplus of $63.4 million--which then, through the miracle of university accounting, disappears to yield a kind of deficit...