Word: legacyism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
The death throes of the Benevolent Manufacturing State, however, have been costly. GM alone has paid out $103 billion in pension and retiree-health-care costs over the past 15 years. "The legacy costs were designed in an era when people retired at 65 and died at 66. We weren...
After the French Revolution, Dom Pérignon's legacy was kept hushed until the 20th century, when it re-emerged as a sensation. In 1936, Doris Duke purchased 100 bottles of the first vintage sold in the U.S.; 68 years later, a case of that vintage sold at auction for...
If the College’s $1 billion House renovation project were left to a group of students at the Graduate School of Design, an upperclass House in 2020 would sit on stilts above a marshland adjacent to the Charles River.Move-in day would take on an entirely new meaning...
Many city workers are eligible for legacy health plans that aren't available to private-sector workers in any but the ritziest of jobs. Some such plans, for instance, offer 100% coverage for basic surgeries with little if any co-pay, whereas private plans may require a $250 to $500...
In his oft-quoted 1859 speech “Self-Made Men,†Frederick Douglass famously declared that men were the “architects of their own good fortunes,†and that successful men were “indebted to themselves for themselves.â?...