Word: hybridization
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...Harvard's treasurer in 1973, he quickly began thinking about the reorganization of the University's financial structure. Since 1948, State Street Research and Management, a firm headed by Bennett, had handled Harvard's money. Rejecting the possibility of maintaining the status quo. Putnam instead created a hybrid of two other models for managing large funds: splitting up the portfolio among several investment firms, and creating an internal investment management company...
...that the show was clearly finished in haste. Sellon, who wrote last year's Pudding show A Little Knife Music, started A.W.O.L. as a Pudding show and once rejected, put it into independent production. Pudding shows are a genre unto themselves and defy analysis--but A.W.O.L. is a strange hybrid. It relies heavily on puns and innuendo for its humor, and yet it's not nearly as raunchy and satisfying as the annual transvestite theatrical. At the same time, Sellon doesn't seem to have faith that the audience will accept a straighter musical. He constantly falls back...
...brand, available in chunky salted and creamy unsalted varieties, is already selling in West Coast supermarkets for $1.49 per 16-oz. jar (vs. $2.35 for 18 oz. of goober butter). Texas ranchers are putting their money where the chunky clings by planting 55,000 acres of the hybrid cotton seed. Jelly supplies remain firm...
...Kate is skeptical, impatient, ambitious and confident: she seems the perfect antagonist for the institution she takes on in this, the sixth Cross book. The Harvard that appears in Death in a Tenured Position is big, smug, successful and emphatically male--a sort of hybrid of the oracle of Delphi and the balcony men's room at the Boston Garden. Its entrenched inhabitants greet change with affection usually reserved for sneezing leprosy victims...
...hybrid club/team suffers as much from inadequate facilities as from the absence of a coach. An exhibition fund-raiser the gymnasts gave for the Harvard Club of New York last spring earned them more than $3000, most of which they spent quickly on new equipment...