Word: dollarize
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...space crunch issue in the upperclassmen Houses is primarily a result of configuration problems that could be addressed in extensive, multi-million dollar renovations to River Houses, the extent of which is still being assessed...
...Harvard’s flagship faculty. It had, for the first time in nearly three decades, launched a comprehensive effort to completely revamp undergraduate education at Harvard. Meanwhile FAS, and in particular the sciences, promised to be at the center of the University’s multi-billion dollar campus expansion across the Charles River into Allston, for which plans—and donors—were being lined...
...telling people I have it,” she says. “I came to Harvard to get legitimacy. But it deligitimizes me.” The special concentrator in urban planning has two paths laid out in front of her. Down one is another multi-million-dollar elite institution, Oxford University, where she would earn a second degree in African Studies. The other leads to the New Left Review, a leftist theory publication in London. She is undecided. In the meantime, she will return to Africa (the site of her last three summers) to conduct summertime research...
...hand, we have Harvard, Inc.—Harvard as global brand, Harvard as multi-billion dollar investor, Harvard as a king of real estate on both sides of the Charles River. Over the last decade, the Corporation and its managers, equating financial growth with Harvard’s “educational mission,” have managed to transform whole portions of the University into the spitting image of a for-profit big business...
...dollar "stars" of the sites are Charles Manson, serving life in prison for murder, and the late John Wayne Gacy, the serial killer executed in 1994. Manson's prison art gets three- and four-figure prices; even his prison flip-flops are for sale. On daisyseven.com - whose logo proclaims "Where Crime Pays. Every Day" - a license plate from Gacy's snow plow is up for $1,700, a Gacy rosary...