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...Mehrling says universities will often place a nearly total focus on increasing the value of their endowment, to the detriment of payout to yearly budgets...
...even if you attended Harvard five times you could never exhaust the possibilities. Perhaps most we forget that, yes, administrators are fallible; they make mistakes, but we shouldn’t continue to beat our heads and theirs against the wall berating them for these occasional missteps to the detriment of the positive. Let’s move...
...wages, benefits or job security are worse than what directly hired workers used to have. Is Harvard unnecessarily harming or exploiting some of its workers? Arguably it is. This claim is especially easy to support because Harvard is so wealthy that it can implement a living wage without detriment to any of its interests or goals. If it were less wealthy, it would still require a powerful excuse for not paying a living wage. Since it cannot claim ignorance, it appears to have no excuse...
Some labor and environmental protections should be included, but at a level that will not preclude the active participation of developing countries. If unrealistic and unattainable standards are set, they will emasculate the FTAA and prevent any expansion of trade, to the detriment of all concerned. Less-wealthy nations cannot be coerced into adopting restrictive labor and environmental protections—they must be convinced that such standards are in their long-term self-interest, partially by experiencing the economic benefits of free trade...
...each had a list, and then the two of us had a sublist of mutual friends each felt should be included in the other's count. My separate parents each had a separate list. Then, in the greatest irony of the wedding, familial functionality turned out to be a detriment for David's happily married parents, because they only got one list between them...