Word: groupness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...When the company was founded, I felt it was important to keep the number of people small--it's cheap, effective, and lets you focus on the major issues," Cabot says. "The great joy and benefit Harvard has is one account for one group of people around a table...
...present the case. "Quite often there's an adversary role, just to make sure we get everything out on the table. There's a lot of debate; I think people should be challenged in this business," Cabot says. But, he adds, "You don't have to repeat things. This group has been sitting around this table every day for five years, and a sort of shorthand develops...
...attracted and held onto an above-average group of investment specialists because it gave them a chance to spend all their time making specific decisions on which account, Harvard's $1.4 billion endowment. They don't spend much time on internal administration because the company is so small, and they don't spend any time on attracting more business or customers because the Corporation won't permit it. "They get to spend 90 or more per cent of their time on the fun part of it," Putnam says. In other investment firms, "as you move up in this field...
...stuff is in those airplane magazines right behind the barf bags") escapes to Cambridge. Potter is believable, if wimpy, when he sits in the shadows of his bachelor pad and listens to "The Way We Were." At his brother's urging, he joins a divorced-men's therapy group where one ex-husband plans to marry the same woman for the fourth time and another dreams, at 71, about liver-spotted female hands reaching out to squeeze the last drops from his body. His brother also sets him up with Marilyn, (Clayburgh) a nursery schoolteacher, who cold-shoulders...
After a quick meeting of affinity group leaders, demonstrators decided to march around the exchange...