Word: extents
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Aggressive fund raising has eased the crunch to some extent. As many as 60 schools are now conducting drives with goals of more than $100 million; three are seeking to break the $1 billion mark. But changes in the tax code have made giving less attractive, and many endowments are still feeling the aftershocks of the 1987 market crash. "How can we look so rich, yet feel so poor?" asks Donald Kennedy, president of Stanford, which faces a projected $11 million shortfall this year...
...Much of their role / will be to imitate editors elsewhere, notably those of the British tabloids (one of Ingersoll's heroes is Rupert Murdoch) and the breezy, chipper Toronto Sun, whose owners flirted with investing in the St. Louis project. Ingersoll is borrowing blatantly from USA Today, to the extent of labeling the new paper's sections Money, Life and Sports. Pages of USA Today are taped on a wall next to a sign reading YOUR GUIDE TO EXCELLENCE. Despite the Sun's derivative quality, Ingersoll describes the paper as "my PM, in the sense that it's creative...
Besides the maintenance of dialogue with the general population, civil rights leaders of this new era must also realize that, to a larger extent, change will have to come from within...
...what extent, it was asked, did individuals have to accept the actions of those with whom they disagreed? When, for example, did an ill-advised, aggressive pass become offensive? When did angry confrontation become a channel for bigotry? When did a protest intended to "protest hate with love" become repulsive, if ever...
...what extent, it was asked, did individuals have to accept the actions of those with whom they disagreed? When, for example, did an ill-advised, aggressive pass become offensive? When did angry confrontation become a channel for bigotry? When did a protest intended to "protest hate with love" become repulsive, if ever...