Word: higher
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Neil L. Rudenstine earned about $290,000 as president of Harvard during the '97-'98 academic year, a figure nearly $100,000 less than the median salary of comparable university presidents, the Chronicle of Higher Education reported this week...
...trend is worrying higher education policy specialists, who said that the salaries for professors haven't seen similar increases...
...military in the past five years. And while twice as many minority respondents as white feel the military isn't doing enough to address racial problems, the great majority of problems reported were relatively innocuous. Further, 82 percent of white soldiers reported having a close black friend, a significantly higher proportion than reported by surveys of the civilian population...
...offering added value, just added profits. Bring on the lawyers. Insurance companies "shouldn't be marketing deferred annuities for placement in retirement plans," says Michael Spencer, partner at Milberg Weiss Bershad Hynes & Lerach, which has filed class actions against four big annuity sellers. "The consumer ends up paying substantially higher fees than if they bought a nonannuity investment...
...SHOP AROUND. Like everything else on the Internet, Rx prices vary wildly. A recent study in the Annals of Internal Medicine warns of the dangers of getting fleeced; Viagra and Propecia prices, it found, are around 10% higher online than in a brick-and-mortar pharmacy. Note too that the average online "consultation" is $70, and the average shipping cost $18. Is it really worth the convenience...