Word: dropping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...September 25, 1998: The Crimson reported that Harvard's endowment lost $1.3 billion, or 10 percent of its value, in the two and a half months since its reported $13 billion high at the end of June. The drop corresponds to declines in the Standard & Poor's 500 and the Dow Jones industrial average between July and mid-September. Add line about current state of endowment here...
...wouldn't trade the last four years in for anything," Muoio said. "A lot of people drop off [from the program], but when I look back, I'm glad for the memories and things that will mean a lot to me even if I didn't realize it at the time...
...really enjoying senior spring, keeping up with classes and pursuing jobs (to little avail), there was no time to be melancholy about my last trip to Hilles, my last helping of General Wong's chicken or my last section. Indeed, eight months later, I am still sick of add-drop forms, Ma Soba, the Grille and Harvard chairs. I am still ready to leave...
Quoted at an all-time high of $13 billion in June 1998, the endowment, Harvard's stockpile of funds, lost 10 percent of its value during the summer months--three percentage points more than the forecasted drop of 7 percent. Harvard was not alone; universities across the country experienced losses of 6 to 10 percent...
Simpson is vocally pro-choice and hasencouraged the Republican Party to drop theabortion issue from its platform...