Word: leveller
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard's portfolio now holds more bonds than in the past and is taking "a historically low equity position" said Cabot, who would not specify the exact bond to stock ratio. The endowment has fluctuated since the market plunge, but currently remains at about the $3.85 billion level, he added...
Statistically, disabled people are two times more likely to be below the poverty level or to be illiterate than able-bodied people. Disabled white males earn 40 percent less than their able-bodied counterparts, Kennedy said...
...Canadian Rhodes competition requires an application and one interview at the provincial level, while the American program includes interviews at the state level and larger, district level...
...these days it also imports its eggs, milk and even its breadsticks. Worse, the cheap dollar means that Italian shoe and clothing exports are not selling very well in the U.S. Moreover, Italy's trade deficit this year, at more than $6.6 billion, is already twice the 1986 level...
While the bumper crops have kept grain prices low, farmers have nevertheless boosted their profits because expenses are lower. Total U.S. farm production costs dropped more than 3% this year, to an estimated $116 billion, the lowest level in nine years. Part of that decline came about because many farmers have reduced acreage under cultivation and the size of their herds. But, at the same time, unusually low feed and fuel prices have helped farms cut the cost of producing a bushel of grain or a pound of beef...