Word: growing
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Barnett once told his class of first-year students to “grow up” so they could face the often gruesome issues they would likely be dealing with in litigation...
...paying what it says are exorbitant bonuses, called on Harvard to report how much of that money has been retracted after the endowment’s recent underperformance. According to HMC’s policies, which emphasize sustained, long-term growth, internal investment managers are awarded bonuses if they grow the value of the endowment above benchmarks set by the HMC Board, but those bonuses can be retracted in later years if the fund underperforms benchmarks...
...Still, the worst that these Italian mothers can usually be accused of is doting too much and not forcing their sons to grow up and do their own laundry. Now, however, in an extreme case that has made headlines across the nation, a court has been asked to consider whether a mother's love for her son - and that of his grandparents too - was so intense, it could be considered a form of child abuse...
...gourds grow heavy on the vine, and the catfish splash merrily in their ponds. At the Learning Center of Sufficiency Economy in Southern Thailand's Yala province, the vision of Thai agriculture as set out by the country's King Bhumibol Adulyadej has reached its fecund best. Like many other parts of Thailand, villagers come to this agricultural laboratory to learn from the monarch's Sufficiency Economy philosophy, which bundles together concepts of sustainable development, rural self-reliance and equitable income distribution. But there's a difference to this vast botanical project: unlike others in the rest of Thailand, this...
...researchers didn't spend much time in the south collecting their information. Pichet acknowledges that the hearts and minds of suspicious Muslim villagers can't be won overnight. But the country still faces a tough battle in its bloody south, no matter how impressively the papaya and rubber trees grow...