Word: exceedingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...DIVESTING, HOWEVER, the University would exceed its socially designated role and misuse its endowment all for a strategy that not only offers little chance of success but also the possibility of harmful retaliation. Bok opposes divestment because, he argues, by selling its stock in companies because they do business in South Africa, Harvard would be using for political ends resources given for educational means. Bok refuses the notion of the university as a political action committee...
...Terms of Endearment, Flashdance), is becoming chairman of 20th Century-Fox. He replaces Alan Hirschfield, 47, who will stay on as a consultant. Marvin Davis, half owner of Fox, wooed Diller by giving him part ownership of the film studio, along with salary and bonuses that will doubtlessly exceed the $2.5 million he earned at Paramount...
...Atlantic, converted a brick-and-stone barn into a boatshop and sail loft and launched the WoodenBoat School. In its maiden year, the school offered only a few basic courses, attracting some 60 students. This year the curriculum has expanded to 18 courses and enrollment is expected to exceed 80 students before the school closes its doors at the end of this week. For tuition of around $300 a week, which includes housing and home-cooked meals at the rambling frame house that serves as the school's dormitory, students can spend from one to three weeks studying such...
...Knapp aggressively marketed fixed-rate mortgages at about 12.5% in the expectation of making big profits when interest rates fell. Instead, they rose slightly in the second quarter, putting the squeeze on F.C.A. To make matters worse, Knapp had permitted large institutional investments, many of which have deposits that exceed the $100,000 limit on accounts insured by the Federal Savings & Loan Insurance Corporation, to make up some 49% of the company's total deposit base. As Knapp's mortgage strategy soured, institutional investors began to flee, fearful about the safety of their uninsured deposits. The size...
...young children." He added, moreover, that "recent evidence shows that adverse health effects from lead exposure may occur at much lower levels than heretofore considered safe." Ruckelshaus estimated that the ruling would lower by nearly 50% the number of children with levels of lead in their blood that exceed U.S. health standards. He said the affected youngsters would be reduced from 97,000 at present...