Word: dollarize
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...particular concern because the money and prioritization inherent in pursuing excellence in this most glamorous of sports can easily compromise a school’s mission. In this respect specifically, football differs from the other 40 sports offered at Harvard: The money spent and made in this billion-dollar business, together with the number of athletes who must be recruited to field a team (last season’s roster exceeded 100 players), form a set of strains on the university system to which no other sport compares. Coupled with the additional time that student-athletes will be diverted from...
...back or lend to an actual person rather than a big bank. Since May 2006, Marilyn Paguirigan of Honolulu has lent a total of $30,000 to more than 100 people on Prosper, most of whom she has never met. "I measure my returns in not just the dollar amount," says Paguirigan, who happily makes 6% to 7% on her loans. "It's in the fulfillment I get from helping people." Here's a typical P2P loan...
...They're pretty small dollar amounts on each loan," Lui says. "I figured it would be acceptable if someone defaulted...
March Madness, that postseason basketball binge of million-dollar sponsorships under the guise of amateur athletics, is upon us once again. The players at Caltech, who compete in the NCAA's Division III, its lowest rung, will never get an invite to that party. Playoffs? Caltech coach Roy Dow is looking for kids who can hang on to the ball. The team just finished 1-24 and, for the 23rd straight season, failed to win a game in the Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference. The legendary science-and-engineering school may have 31 Nobel Prize winners to its name...
...sacrifices some musical quality to its political aims. The “New Amerykah” cover art serves as a blaring warning that the fainthearted and “Hill-Duff” fans should probably sit this one out. Fetuses, cellular phones, black power fists, whips, dollar signs, and a double helix caught in Badu’s afro immediately signal that she has a lot to sing about. In album opener “Amerykahn Promise,” a robotic voice instructs passengers to leave their valuables at home. It declares, “We love...