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...cent into them. The family's two-bedroom apartment is crammed with five television sets, three video-game consoles and two VCRs. Next month his kids want to attend a church camp in Michigan that costs $100 a child. So two weeks ago, abandoning their custom of giving away outgrown clothes and toys to neighbors, the family held its first yard sale to raise cash...
...find cards all that helpful anymore. Sure, sometimes I'll stumble upon something I just can't pass by, a card that calls to mind with startling precision some long-lost memory or inside joke. For the most part, though, I find myself feeling inordinately grateful that I've outgrown my card fixation...
...this point, Meyer says HMC began a discussion about whether the endowment had outgrown HMC and whether parts of the endowment should be outsourced. There was even discussion of breaking up HMC entirely in separate smaller firms...
...University, and thus were troubled by the issues faculty and administrators kept raising: classes were too big, there weren’t enough faculty, housing was overcrowded, and the sciences seemed to be falling by the wayside. Finally, it became clear to the committee members that Harvard had outgrown Cambridge. Over the next half-century, Harvard would need to shift across the river to land purchased in Allston, and the 27th president needed to lead the move. Harvard was looking for a 50-year plan. To top it all off, the committee decided it wanted someone who would work...
...pure size, Harvard had outgrown itself. The University as a whole was 50 percent larger than its pre-war size. Enrollment in the College had soared over 5,000 persons, where administrators believed 4,300 to be a normal figure...