Word: extraness
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...University’s chief fundraiser Tamara E. Rogers ’74 said yesterday that though Harvard had already begun focusing fundraising efforts on current use money before the recession, market pressures gave these concerted efforts “extra impetus” and direction, most notably in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences...
...stock-loan department, AIG's other disaster, took the cash it got for lending out stock owned by AIG and invested the money in esoteric securities rather than in risk-free Treasuries, the standard practice. The idea was - I'm not kidding - to make an extra one-fifth of 1% in interest. When the esoterica, which the stock-loan folks thought was riskless, crumbled, so did the firm. (See the worst business deals...
...Andy A. Parchman ’11 says the money from Fall Cleanup his freshman year was “just extra spending money, so I could buy three more girls drinks on a Saturday night...
Regardless of what dorm crew workers spend their extra income on, the question of class divide and social stigma always arises when the conversation is about cleaning toilets...
...practice, but one that states could decide whether or not to observe. The first year, only 19 states participated in daylight saving. As the years passed, more states acquiesced to the Federal Government's daylight saving schedule - which was created for energy-saving purposes, with the idea that an extra hour of daylight in the winter would cause people to use less oil. Arizona never adopted the new time plan on the grounds that it was too hot out to "spring forward" an hour in the summer. Daylight hours don't vary much in Hawaii, and the tropical state...