Word: grow
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...importance of such work is already great and promises to grow even greater in the future. If government officials insist on assessing the quality of higher education in ways that will affect the lives of students and the welfare of institutions, it is essential that the means of evaluation be more sophisticated than the standardized tests currently used for these purposes...
...then, when you come down to it, what do students really matter? Their main function is to grow up into rich alumni but while in school they're too poor to contribute much. They take too much time from the professor's research, they're messy and demanding, and their credit ratings are still low. They simply act as a drag on the furthering of knowledge. If every student disappeared tomorrow, the University would not only survive, it could finally get some work done. Who knows--maybe the students could teach themselves, in their spare time...
...third and clinching article came on Monday about the endowment. Here is Harvard's crowning glory, a $3.5 billion bankroll that represents 10 percent of all money held by colleges in the country and grows so fast the interest could pay off everyone's tuition in a month. Imagine the dream-vision: Harvard, the oldest institution in the United States, made absolutely free to all students. No one, no matter how poor, is intimidated from applying; nearly everyone even remotely qualified tries. Getting in certifies one's standing as the very best the country has to offer. Prestige has never...
...countries as fast as they could print it, which slowed growth and aggravated inflation and unemployment. Many Western countries finally began to break free of that pattern this year, thanks to falling interest rates and the decline in oil prices. Conservation measures now enable the industrial economies to grow without increasing energy use at the same rate. Between 1973 and 1985, the U.S. economy expanded by almost one-third while energy consumption fell slightly. Says Rimmer de Vries, chief international economist for Morgan Guaranty Trust: "We used to be hooked on oil. But now the tight relationship between...
...behind their words and lines in a collective cerebral effort to avoid that most precarious of danger zones, the human heart. A popular offering for perennially over-intellectualized Harvard audiences, this Tom Stoppard play, like a Woody Allen film, could be about what happens to Harvard students when they grow...