Word: maximation
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...funds were drained in the mid-19th century by defaults among borrowers who took the money and ran (illustrating another Franklin maxim: "Opportunity is the great bawd"). Today the trusts hold less than $4 million: $3.2 million in Boston (now loaned to medical students at 2%), and $770,000 in Philadelphia (currently invested in mortgages). Boston Trustee Noel Morss figures that his city's sum will grow only to $5 million by 1991, when it is to be divided between Boston and the state of Massachusetts under the terms of Franklin's will. The suggestion has been made...
...Princeton came back in the Easterns to nab a 364-356 win. With All-American sprinter Julian Mack returning to the Harvard ranks after a half-season layoff, the strong lineup--including veterans Bobby Hackett, co-captains Malcolm Cooper and Eric Seder, and freshman stars Tim Maxim off and Lee Menichella--looks stronger every...
...part of its new public relations strategy, American Motors has revived an old maxim: "If you don't have anything good to say, don't say anything at all." So last week AMC broke a 20-year industry tradition and stopped releasing ten-day sales figures; instead, it will give out monthly reports. After a fourth straight year of declining car sales, executives felt that bad news in twelve lumps is better than the same news meted out in 36 installments. American Motors also points out that its Jeep is not included in the car sales reports...
...farmer. Released on bail, he was promptly sent back to the farm for stealing a pickup truck. Little Bruce was despondent because he had been planning to marry his girlfriend, pretty Robin Miller, 15, who lived on a farm in nearby Oxford. But he resolved to follow the family maxim: "Do your time or don't commit the crime...
Praise be to Spokane's Roman Catholic Bishop Bernard J. Topel [Nov. 13] for his voluntary poverty, one of the fundamentals of Christian doctrine. Unfortunately, he is one of a tiny minority aware of the unwritten maxim, "You can tell but cannot teach, unless you practice what you preach...