Word: endowment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WITH THE exception of a pretentious author's note at the novel's beginning, the entire novel is written in Mgungu's voice. Janowitz tries to endow it with an ironic wit, but instead it comes across as boring and arrogant...
...Lampoon will also erect a bronze statue of Elmer that will resemble the John Harvard figure, establish a resident Elmer Scholar position, and endow an Elmer fund to spend on Elmer research...
About $100 million of the $550 million total is slated to endow 100 professorships, raising MIT's number of endowed chairs by more than one-third, Strehle said...
...business schools. Last week, to bolster ethical training at his alma mater, the Harvard Business School, former Investment Banker Shad made a reported $20 million down payment on a gift that other alumni contributions will eventually bring to $30 million, the school's largest gift ever. The money will endow chairs and underwrite case studies in ethical issues. In the words of Dean John McArthur, it will allow ethics "to be imbedded in the very fabric of what we teach and research...
...Perhaps the flies had come to seem to Davis the outward sign of the devil's presence here in the Masai enk'ang, home of polygamists and breezy pagan fornicators. But the goat was an ancient symbol of the devil. The theology was confusing. Perhaps Davis merely intended to endow one fly-free little life in the dense air of the boma...