Word: fewness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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"Once I said [to a prospective donor], 'I'm endowing a chair'--a few days later he called and did the same," Monrad says.
A few years ago, Monrad endowed a professorship at the Russian Research Center--a gift with $1 million price tag. The position was filled last year by Monrad Professor of Economics Martin L. Weitzman and is considered a key appointment for the center.
A quick background check on a few of the key speakers proves this. The keynote address, for example, is to be delivered by Benjamin Beit Hallahmi of Haifa University. His area of expertise is not political science or history, but psychology. Hallahmi has authored a misstatement-filled book on Israel...
IN the last few years I've spent most--really, I should say all--of my meager earnings on listening to rock 'n roll. So I've got a state-of-the-art stereo system with speakers that give a wall-of-sound image and a vast, eclectic record collection...
Because it has. The great thing about L.P.'s is that they age, they show time. What a sterile experience it will be 10 years from now listening to the Bruce Springsteen or Grateful Dead C.D. you bought in 1989 only to realize that it sounds the same as it...