Word: mattered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This team bond, however, is not purely a physical matter of memorizing running patterns, but it also is a personal reflection of how well the team gets along...
...that matter, most students at Harvard are probably mavericks. The kind of discipline found at many church colleges and certainly at the military academy died decades ago, if it ever existed here. But while Harvard students might well balk at having to live under extensive parietals, students at more regulated colleges are satisfied with the rules...
...think people here are involved. When you get out of Washington there's a whole lot of things that don't seem to matter. But folks appreciate what he's doing," says Oneida businessman and longtime friend W. H. Swain...
Stevens agrees that HMC's set-up helps keep talented managers. But, he says, "There's a possible disadvantage in not having the flexibility to decide that someone--no matter how much time they're spending--isn't doing a good job. It's a different kind of decision to say to someone, 'We don't like you and we're going to fire you,' than to tell a company, 'We're going to move to a different company...
...matter what choices Harvard makes in the stock/bond mix, however, and no matter how successful HMC is in increasing annual income from the endowment, inflation stands in the wings ready to devour the most impressive investment record. Even the hundreds of millions the Harvard Campaign will tack on to the endowment will only delay the day of reckoning if double-digit inflation continues. In years of 10 to 12 per cent inflation, like 1974 or this year, the real value of the endowment will fall despite the best record in the stock and bond markets...