Word: eggs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...value of Harvard's endowment at the end of fiscal year 1995. By 1996, the endowment's value had risen 26 percent to $9.1 billion, due mainly to the bull market, but just as important to this increase has been Harvard's frugal management of its precious nest egg...
Endowment and prestige then become chicken and egg, according to many officials...
...faculty wife, you disappeared when the faculty members went out to dinner. The wives would sort of stay home and have a boiled egg," she says, noting that her husbands' colleagues at American schools made a point of inviting her as well...
...elections, fiery right-winger Jean-Marie Le Pen found himself instead in a slugfest with some 30 hecklers in the crime-plagued Paris suburb of Mantes-La-Jolie. In the tumult, Le Pen wound up striking one youth who had shoved him and lunging after others in the jeering, egg-hurling crowd. One man who may wish he had been there, sticks and stones in hand, is endangered president Jacques Chirac. With its blame-the-immigrants economics, the Front has all but cornered France's far-right vote. But instead of allying with Chirac's conservatives, Le Pen has targeted...
...grills up to 65 in. wide (in case you're entertaining the U.S. Army), fully equipped with side burners, wok ring and built-in smoker system, for a cool $4,500. Another nifty piece of equipment (for less than $400) is a smoker called the Big Green Egg. This ceramic oval, based on the traditional Japanese cooker called a kamado, uses no water yet keeps food moist and can smoke a turkey in just two hours...