Word: dollarization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Despite these cutbacks, the half-million-dollar budget still allows AHA to spend $14.000 for the salaries of 100 counselors employed to supervise the children's activities and $15,000 for one luncheon. AHA also purchases $37,000 worth of "gifts" for the alumni and their families. These include umbrellas, frisbees, and wastebaskets, all of which bear prominent renderings of the crimson insignia of the Class...
Since the formation of a professional corporation to manage Harvard's portfolio nearly a decade ago, University Treasurer George Putnam '49 may no longer make the day-to-day decisions about how to invest every Harvard dollar. But the soft-spoken unobtrusive businessman continues to be the key influence on university investment policy...
...pronounce "dioxyribonucleic acid" or say anything substantive about it, Nonetheless, the prospect of garnering desperately needed funds came close last fall to luring top Harvard administrators to trade University patents for shares in a fledgling genetic-engineering company involving a senior professor in a key role. After seeing through dollar signs to the practical and academic questions concerning the prospect of going into business with a faculty member, President Bok announced that Harvard would pass up the risky, if potentially lucrative, foray. Although his decision seemed to satisfy the majority of the University community and especially the Faculty of Arts...
...some momentum" and that "everyone was quite enthusiastic about it." Otto T. Solbrig, professor of Biology and a member of the Faculty Council, a group that considers issues of interest to the Faculty, is somewhat more blunt in his assessment: "They had not thought the issues through--they saw dollar signs and got excited. In the beginning they were too enthused with the financial possibilities, when the issues through--they saw dollar signs and got excited. In the beginning they were too enthused with the financial possibilities, when the issue was the principle of the thing...
...Silver Springs, Fla., and who survived eleven bites from the lethal likes of rattlesnakes, copperheads and cottonmouth snakes; of cancer; in Gainesville, Fla. A stand-in for Johnny Weissmuller in the Tarzan movies of the 1930s and '40s, Allen was in the final stages of building a million-dollar tourist attraction called Alligator Town, scheduled to open this summer near Lake City...