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...prevented competitors from producing clones -- made the company recession-proof in the past, has been badly bruised. Apple, which surprised Wall Street a week ago by reporting a larger than expected quarterly deficit of $188.3 million, has been losing its edge to software systems like Microsoft's Windows, which endow practically any PC with easy-to-use, Mac-like features. In a desperate bid to halt defections, Apple this month cut prices on 23 models of computers as much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crashing Prices | 8/2/1993 | See Source »

...Prince Turki bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud, of Saudi Arabia, endowed a professorship of immunology at Harvard Medical School In October 1990. The amount of the gift was not disclosed, but it usually costs about $2 million to endow a full professorship...

Author: By Ira E. Stoll, | Title: Harvard's Foreign Billions | 7/20/1993 | See Source »

...King Fahd bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud, of Saudi Arabia, gave Harvard $5 million to support the study of Islamic law. The donation, announced last month, will endow a professorship and fund legal research...

Author: By Ira E. Stoll, | Title: Harvard's Foreign Billions | 7/20/1993 | See Source »

Variations: If you're really rich, maybe your parents could endow central air conditioning for a dorm or for all the Harvard houses...

Author: By Ira E. Stoll, | Title: BEATING THE HEAT | 7/9/1993 | See Source »

While the Stride Rite grant provides living expenses so graduates can work full time on public service, it does not endow the project. Fels expects her $15,000 to cover her personal expenses, but she will spend the summer lobbying the federal and local government, and private donors, for more funding...

Author: By Amanda C. Pustilnik, | Title: Service Grants Give Grads a Chance to Dig Deep | 6/9/1993 | See Source »

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