Word: investable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ancient mariners, polar residents and all other serious outdoorsmen know well, simply heaping on clothes brings on the sweats-and the sweat can swiftly freeze. The best bottom-line investment (for about $18) is a thermal -meaning it traps the air-underwear with an inner lining of moisture-absorbent cotton topped with wool, cotton and nylon. On top the urban survivor wears a flannel shirt, a cashmere sweater or a goose-down vest, a tweed jacket, a muffler, mittens (which allow fingers to warm each other) and a heavy overcoat. On the assumption that the 8:30 a.m. train...
...South African apartheid an expression of genes for competition, aggression and territoriality? Does Harvard choose to hold stock in companies which invest in South Africa in order to enhance its "reproductive fitness" or to increase its endowment...
...high priority in the University" Grant said. Under state mandate Harvard and Roxbury each get approximately $40,000 this year to finance their joint programs. With a full-time staff of three based at Harvard and several part-time employees working at Roxbury, Grant estimated that Harvard will invest an additional $30,000 into the project this year...
Some of the pipeline workers are Alaskan residents, who plan to stay in the state and to spend and invest their wages locally. But there are also the out-of-staters, "boomers," who come into Alaska generally to take as much money out of the state as they can. Those who succeed in getting jobs are, at the best, a drain on the Alaskan economy. But the out-of-staters who can't find work often resort to crime, which has skyrocketed since construction began in '73, in order to afford the state's high costs of living. Pipeline jobs...
...attitude towards the public that prevails in company and union actions. A "cost-plus" philosophy governs the oil companies' buying policies and labor expenditure decisions--companies are assured that cost-overruns will not decrease their profits. "Cost-plus" is in one sense an inducement essential to getting companies to invest large amounts of capital in a high risk situation, but from another perspective, it removes the pressure on companies that would ordinarily cause them to keep a lid on wage demands and seek the greatest possible worker efficiency. "Cost-plus" guarantees that the consumer will...