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...NATION'S largest endowment, Harvard's formerly $4 billion fund, is taking a dive along with everything else in the financial world. But Harvard students needn't worry. As far as students are concerned, the endowment might as well be booming...
...however, a few strains of Europessimism linger. Europeans realize that in the mid-1980s their exports to the U.S. received a mighty boost from the rise in the value of the dollar, which made imports less expensive for American consumers and businesses. Now that the dollar has taken a dive, Europe's export industries are feeling pressure once again. Another concern is sluggish investment. Despite healthy earnings, many of Europe's companies are not devoting enough money to modernizing and expanding factories. Instead, firms are stashing cash in high- yielding money-market securities or buying up other companies in Europe...
crab: put the blade in the water at other than a 90 degree angle. This causes the blade to dive into the water, which in turn destroys the rower's rhythm and at worst flips him or her out of the shell...
...similar magic at the Gap. Between 1983 and 1986 its sales rose from $480 million to $848 million as the number of stores expanded from 550 to 724. Banana Republic alone grew to 65 stores. The Gap's annual profits ballooned from $21.6 million to $68.1 million. Before its dive, the firm's stock price had risen nearly 2,900% in five years. Said Dean Witter Reynolds Analyst William Tichy before the stock's plunge: "This thing has just defied the law of gravity...
Tracee Whitley: You want defense, you got defense. Dive left, jump right, stop the ball. Get the jersey dirty. But for Tracee Whitley, the senior goalie on the Harvard women's soccer team, a dirty jersey means a clean goals-against average. Last year, Whitley finished with a .56 g.a.a., the lowest such average for any goalie at Harvard. She is a two-time All-America...