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...selling price of $147 million is approximately one-fourth of the plant's construction costs, adjusting for inflation, making Harvard's loss equivalent to about half a billion dollars...
...Quad, and if given the choice to move to the River, would not take it. Who had the most spirit at Annenberg while welcoming the first-years? Currier, Pforzheimer and Cabot clearly outdid the rest of the houses in sheer number and decibel level. Even though we comprise just one-fourth of the total upper-class population, the Quad had an equal number of representatives at Annenberg as the River houses combined. The feeling of bonding was genuine, not contrived...
Adjusting for inflation, the selling price of $147 million is roughly one-fourth of the plant's construction costs. In today's dollars, the loss would be equivalent to approximately half a billion dollars--not counting the returns the University could have earned had the money been invested rather than sunk into construction costs...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: As any horrified European will tell you, Americans put out more trash than anybody else. But hearing that we throw away one-fourth of the 356 billion pounds of food produced each year in the United States is a bit daunting. According to a Agriculture Department study, food wasted in U.S. retail stores, restaurants and homes amounted to a whopping 96 billion pounds in 1995. Recovery of just five percent of that food would have provided enough for 4 million people to eat, the study estimates. Homes and restaurants accounted for the bulk of the waste: grocery stores...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: As any horrified European will tell you, Americans put out more trash than anybody else. But hearing that we throw away one-fourth of the 356 billion pounds of food produced each year in the United States is a bit daunting. According to a Agriculture Department study, food wasted in U.S. retail stores, restaurants and homes amounted to a whopping 96 billion pounds in 1995. Recovery of just five percent of that food would have provided enough for 4 million people to eat, the study estimates. Homes and restaurants accounted for the bulk of the waste: grocery stores...