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According to City Assessor James T. McDavitt, the contribution is based on taxrates that would have been paid had the academicproperty not been exempt. "Harvard doesn't like toadmit that they're paying on that formula," hesaid...
...Cinq's programming is following Berlusconi's successful formula, with several Italian-produced game shows, movies like Saturday Night Fever and such U.S. series as Flamingo Road and Murder, She Wrote. Berlusconi insists that La Cinq "will bring in new blood and raise the level of professionalism on all the other networks." Though opening night drew mixed reviews ("Clumsy," declared Liberation, an independent Paris daily), ratings were good: an estimated 62% of the Paris audience watched at least one minute of the programming...
...alternative which would separate the larger issue--of where community residences should be located in Cambridge and what kind of distribution formula should be used--from the smaller issue--of the use of the Prospect Street Church," Whitty said...
...million dollars was invested along with Harvard's other endowment monies in a mutual fund. Committee Chair John B. Fox Jr., administrative dean for the graduate school of arts and sciences, says the criteria for doling out the funding was set by "a carefully calculuated formula" determined by faculty, administrators and financial personnel. Between four and five percent of an endowment's income is made available for distribution, and then is reinvested back into the original capital fund...
Under this scheme, only half of the members are selected entirely on the basis of the writing comp. The other half is selected with a formula of 70 percent first-year grades, 30 percent writing comp...