Word: dollarize
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...switch was part of the ongoing Harvard Square Improvement Project, a multi-million dollar effort by the City of Cambridge and the University to improve the Square and make it more pedestrian-friendly...
...School of Dental Medicine professor cleared last month of allegations that he covered up links between fluoride and bone cancer is listed as a million-dollar benefactor of the school’s new research and education building. The revelation has led one environmental advocacy group to suggest that a recent Harvard investigation of the professor, Chester W. Douglass, may have been compromised due to the professor’s status as a patron of the school. The Washington-based Environmental Working Group, which initially brought the accusations against Douglass, said on Friday that the professor’s donation...
Global luxury has wrought billion-dollar businesses and dizzying amounts of dealmaking?which means that today's fashion stars aren't only those manufactured in schools like London's Central Saint Martins or New York City's Parsons. A whole new breed of fashion influencers are formed at hard-core business schools like Harvard, HEC, ESSEC and Bocconi where the syllabus doesn't include patternmaking but rather an altogether different kind of intangible skill set, namely the ability to manage intensely creative talent. Dior president Sidney Toledano, a graduate of the top French engineering school ECP, compares the structure...
Harvard will also wait until a permanent president takes office before launching its multi-billion-dollar capital campaign, which could be the largest in higher-ed history. The public launch of the campaign has already slipped from Harvard officials’ initial expectations...
...India. Last month the Gucci Group was rumored to be eyeing the London-based Alice Temperley label. Next thing you know, parent company PPR will be purchasing Italian jeweler Bulgari. Beauty conglomerates like Estée Lauder and L'Oréal are once again hunting for acquisitions, armed with multimillion-dollar checkbooks...