Word: making
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Around the world the U.S. is confronted by the plight of poor but friendly countries that have borrowed heavily and spent unwisely. A traditional American approach has been to make new loans so that the debtors can repay old ones. Debt forgiveness, by any name, has always been anathema, since most of the borrowed money comes from private banks whose directors and shareholders are not in the forgiveness business...
...Mort was the kind of guy who could make you do that. You think Bill Cosby ever forced me to do that? Cosby can't even hold Mort's [the same part of the body mentioned before...
...Summer School is primarily, if not exclusively, an academic institution," says Dean of Continuing Education Michael Shinagel, who oversees the Summer School. "If we are efficient and successful and we make money, that is fine. We are there to run an economically viable, cost-efficient institution...
...Buck's report to the Faculty Council, he listed the summer program's priorities as follows: first, to make Harvard's resources available to a broader range of people; second, to give financial assistance for minorities, economically underprivileged people, women interested in science and Boston secondary school teachers; and third, to make money...
...tenor of the meeting was that somehow Harvard was selling itself short, that the only purpose of this was to make money, that it was beneath Harvard to do this sort of thing," said Mckay Professor of Applied Mathematics Roger W. Brockett...