Word: plums
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...business on his own for less than a year, but he has already won the Council of Fashion Designers of America's award for best new talent. What captivated the jaded professional eyes was the fresh colors of his simple, breezy separates. Burnished goldenrod, glowing coppery brown, deep plum, a palette of greens that goes from pale apple to ripe olive -- his hues seem drawn from the earth itself...
...other words, Harvard offers a juicy plum to alumni who might be willing to throw out a few scraps to the less fortunate. It's the trickle-down theory at its most ugly. Harvard's position is exactly analogous to arguing that it was all right for French monarchs to sell hereditary sinecures, because the revenues improved the crown's capacity to provide assistance to the peasants...