Word: extention
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...Wellesley, where she managed the school’s billion-dollar endowment. There, she implemented an investment strategy similar to the one used at Harvard, diversifying asset exposure and repositioning the portfolio for stronger long-term performance.But managing Wellesley’s assets likely never represented the full extent of Mendillo’s ambitions, and former Wellesley President Diana C. Walsh says she understood that Mendillo’s time was limited when they hired her. Nevertheless, she says the school is grateful for the work she did.The portfolio Mendillo created for Wellesley saw annualized returns of 13.5 percent...
...gather ideas, input, and ensure the community understands the extent of the financial challenge,” Smith wrote in an e-mail to a student who requested anonymity to preserve relations with the administration, “but there will always be a part of this process that must occur thoughtfully and quietly behind closed doors...
...extent that the President is interested in someone with a long-term vision, it’s not clear to me that he does have that,” Tushnet says. “It’s not clear that that is an important consideration, but if it is an important thing, then it’s an obstacle...
...vanished from modern studies of leadership but it has been broadened and made more flexible. Traits have come to be seen as consistent patterns of personality rather than inherited characteristics. This definition mixes nature and nurture, and means that “traits” can, to some extent, be learned rather than merely inherited. We talk about leaders being more energetic, more risk-taking, more optimistic, more persuasive, and more empathetic than other people, but these traits are affected partly by a leader’s genetic makeup and partly by the environments in which the traits were learned...
...Clinton and Bush represent, to a certain extent, extremes on a continuum. It is the hope of many in this nation to see President Barack H. Obama occupy a middle ground, embodying a healthy marriage of curiosity and conviction. The administration’s decision to make sweeping changes to the federal budget suggested a vigorous defense of an answer he gave on the campaign trail. But other moves, such as the recent nomination of Judge Sonia M. Sotomayor to the Supreme Court, whom most legal analysts do not consider a liberal intellectual heavyweight to counter Justice Antonin G. Scalia...