Word: investers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Even so, HMC recognizes the need to produce for today and therefore employs investment strategies that strike the proper balance. For the last several years, the plan has been to invest a large chunk of the portfolio in common stocks. Not just any stocks, though; the managers at HMC do careful research before making their investment decisions, often seeking the advice of Harvard experts at their disposal. In the early to mid-1970s, their research told them that world oil prices would increase substantially and that American prices would have to catch up. Translated into an investment strategy, that meant...
...March 1980, a a New York Times article said Harvard had begun to show a "growing aggressiveness" because of its decision to invest heavily in stocks. The article based a part of its argument on comparative statistics: Between mid-1974 and mid-1979, the endowment grew 10.5 per cent to 1.3 billion; while between mid-1979 and March 1980, it grew 21 per cent to 1.6 billion...
...product of this change is a federal budget exquisitely tailored to the current agenda of the American right. The government is to be forced off the backs of the people, through reductions in social services, safety regulations and income assistance, leaving private enterprise free to invest and expand in ways that will take up the slack for the abandoned government functions. The Defense Department is exempt from these cutbacks because it must increase preparedness against the world-wide Soviet threat. Furthermore, the government will cut taxes in an effort to encourage investment in the once-again-robust private sector...
This procedure, many faculty agree, helps preserve the University's reputation for appointing candidates with the most prominent reputations in their fields--and all agree that professors take seriously the task of choosing future colleagues in whom the University may invest as much as $1.5 million over time. But, say some, the process allows such broad discretion at so many stages of the tenure process that the system may lend itself to gender or race discriminations. Others argue that Harvard's reputation-heavy criteria effectively mandate the selection of older professors--and thus implicitly discriminate against qualified younger pools, where...
Nevertheless, everyone wants famous Nathan to do the right thing. A stranger on a bus is disappointed to see him on public transportation and suggests buying a helicopter to "fly straight over the dog-poop." He is urged to invest his money elsewhere than in his shoe, dress more expensively and circulate with other celebrities. The result is Zuckerman in nighttown with a glamorous Irish actress named Caesara O'Shea who reads Kierkegaard and disappears in the morning to continue her top-secret affair with Fidel Castro...