Word: endowment
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...American-English lexicon. To deny the usage of the word in any context, Kennedy contends, is to erase the word’s history and, potentially, the literature that captured this history, such as Twain’s oft-cited Adventures of Huck Finn. Similarly, this eradication would endow the word with more destructive power and heighten its taboo. The idea that the elimination of a racist term will eliminate racism itself is nothing more than a pipe dream...
Brown University—to which Taubman gave $3.2 million to endow the Taubman Center for Public Policy in 1983—issued a statement praising Taubman’s philanthropy...
...real loss we feel at senseless death and suffering cannot be explained or understood without a God to endow value to we peculiar arrangements of molecules. Nor can our moral outrage gain any traction without a judge and executor to give justification to our preference to live rather than...
During the capital campaign, the University hoped to endow 40 new FAS professorships. But only 28 were funded, and the size of the Faculty has remained relatively steady over the last decade. As a consequence of this slow growth and of the Faculty’s low turnover rate, Rudenstine has been unable to make significant progress in his stated goal of diversifying the Faculty. In addition, the University rarely grants tenure to junior Faculty members, driving many of the nation’s top scholars and teachers elsewhere...
...shares have fallen more than 98% from their 52-week high, the $1 million worth of stock that vice president Michael Wolfe pledged to Stanford a year ago nearly evaporated. By the time the school received and sold the stock, its value had fallen to $100,000--enough to endow a single undergraduate scholarship...