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...What we want you to do is to loan McGovern money now. This will probably be the least-secured loan you'll ever make. There's no collateral and no interest. You might take a loss." Then he explained the McGovern practice of accepting a loan and putting aside one-fourth of gifts to begin repaying the loan within two weeks. (If the loan is not repaid, it is considered a gift, not a tax-deductible loss.) That night McGovern picked up $50,000?but his aides had hoped...
...ingot. The first ingot of the series, issued in a limited edition of 10,000, contains 20 ounces of silver and sells for $200. The real wholesale market worth of 20 ounces of silver is about $36. Typically, the value of the silver in the medals and ingots is one-fourth or less of the price that the limited-edition customer pays...
OBVIOUSLY, more capable science students and those students with stronger science backgrounds elect the more difficult science courses (i.e., Chem 6). Thus, it is not surprising that those students who have taken Nat Sci 3 do less well in Chem 20 than others. While one-fourth of those lacking the stated prerequisites for Chem 20 do lower than C-work in the course, it would be helpful to know first how that compares with other students enrolled in the course, and second, how well the other three-fourths of students without the prerequisites do. It would be especially interesting...
...Eastern Liberal Establishment seems to be highly represented in the group. Chayes said most of the professors are from the East Coast and about one-fourth are from the Boston area...
...One thing that attracts increasing numbers of U.S. educators to Open University is the fact that it is relatively cheap to operate: it costs about one-fourth as much as a conventional British university. Indeed, the new programs at California, Texas, Maryland and New Jersey universities will even import the same materials being used in England. Explains Rutgers Provost Kenneth Wheeler: "If we can use their texts and lectures and not have to develop our own, it would mean a savings of millions of dollars...