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...butter were about the only affordable fare for Bruce Bent and Henry Brown, the inventors of the money-market mutual fund. Their creation, registered in 1971 as the Reserve Fund, offered big yields to small savers for the first time and eventually spawned a $200 billion industry. At the outset, the idea yielded Brown and Bent little besides frustration, but nowadays they are a couple of happy millionaires...
...From the outset of the contest, things did not go the Crimson's way. In the afternoon's first event. Harvard's best long jumper. Jimmy Johnson, pulled his hamstring as he took off for his second leap. He will not return to action for at least four weeks, but despite his injury, his first leap of 23 ft. 8 1/4 inches was good enough to earn him third place Northeastern captured the first two spots...
...doubt that a faculty member can ordinarily devote the time and energy the university requires and also pursue a substantial involvement in any such outside company. Such involvement necessarily demands great concentration and commitment, particularly at the outset or if business goes badly. When a faculty member becomes substantially involved in a company, the conflict in norms governing the dissemination of knowledge becomes very difficult to reconcile. The burden of maintaining a teaching program and two separate research programs, where the results of one research program are to be widely disseminated and the results of the other may be required...
...From the outset of the meet, it was obvious that things were not going to go Harvard's way. Senior jumping star Jimmy Johnson had his worst outing since his freshman year and failed to place in the long jump, giving Army first and third places in the afternoon's first event...
...momentum of the team collapsed right from the outset," Co-Captain Scott Murrer said. "Our normal stalwarts didn't score and the younger members of the team were upset by Army's early domination...