Word: paper
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...homes they bought for $20,000 or so in the 1960s that are worth easily 10 times as much today. Many have socked away money in mutual funds or burgeoning 401(k) plans, reinvested dividends and capital-gains distributions, and piled up huge profits--so far mostly on paper...
Cost-cutting CEOs like Al Dunlap would certainly agree. "Chainsaw Al" wiped out a $5 million annual philanthropy budget when he took over at Scott Paper a few years ago. Now, at Sunbeam, he's eliminated that company's $1 million-a-year giving program. "The purest form of charity is to make the most money you can for shareholders and let them give to whatever charities they want," Dunlap says...
Please don't squeeze the...Penrose Pattern? Makers of toilet tissue trumpet their product's softness, durability and economy, but what about a white embossed paper, above left, that both celebrates the solution to one of the great conundrums of modern science and appears bulkier despite using 15% less paper? In 1974, Sir Roger Penrose, the esteemed Oxford mathematician, devised a geometric pattern--dubbed the Penrose Pattern--that demonstrated for the first time that a nonrepeating pattern could exist in nature, above right. Then one day Sir Roger noticed that the design on a roll of Kleenex quilted toilet tissue...
...pressing issues of media ethics which are pervasive in society cannot be solved from the top down by editors and reporters. Public input is crucial. If you are unhappy with The Crimson's reporting for any reason, please contact me, and perhaps The Crimson will become a better paper...
Reading period ought to be about learning rather than paper writing. Learning is something which is often done without papers and without grades. In fact, all true learning is so accomplished, since learning only comes with understanding. We are no longer youth, so we gain nothing by mere mimicry, which not incidentally is the process induced by such things as Core final exams. Truth is not something to be copied from a textbook or taken from a teaching fellow. Rather, truth is found through the personalization of work...