Word: fractionals
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...reasonable person would suggest that a rural Iowan who spends a dollar, some fraction of which eventually ends up in Sudan after dozens of movements, is morally responsible for helping finance genocide. But supporters of divestiture use the same logic: Harvard invests...
...look at things another way: we students provide money to Harvard through tuition, some fraction of which eventually ends up in Sudan. Not only that, we know that it ends up there. Is it now our moral imperative to “divest” from Harvard and go elsewhere? Or is the guilt all cleared up by the time it reaches us? How many transactional “steps” does it take before guilt is absolved...
...going to fall on lower- and middle-income households," says Mark Zandi of Economy.com Yet supporters say the dangers could be easily mitigated by allowing investments only in broad stock and bond indexes, which are relatively safe, and by limiting the size of personal savings accounts to a fraction of one's Social Security taxes--say, 2 to 4 percentage points of the 12.4% annual levy...
...Summers’ salary was just a fraction of the $35.1 million reeled in by Maurice Samuels, one of Harvard’s hugely successful endowment managers...
...promising sign for Harvard’s efforts to attract more low-income students, the fraction of this year’s early applicants requesting fee waivers jumped nearly 50 percent from the previous year’s pool...