Word: portions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...money earned in the investment venture will probably not be used to offset rising University costs directly, Cabot said, but he added that because a very small portion of Harvard's endowment fund will be used for the investments, it will probably only slightly increase that fund. Twenty-two per cent of the total college budget comes from endowment...
...tremendous mutual incomprehension. The cycle started with the education in Hartford, Conn., of China's first foreign students in 1872. Eventually, as Dean Acheson wrote, "hardly a town in our land was without its society to collect funds and clothing for Chinese missions ... Thus was nourished the love portion of our love-hate complex that was to infuse so much emotion into our later China policy...
...more attention than it is getting is Califano's hospital cost containment bill, which would curb Medicare expenditures by prohibiting hospitals from raising costs by more than 9% a year. Perhaps an even better approach is Economist Penner's suggestion to have the program's recipients pick up a portion of their hospital and doctors' fees. This would not only cut expenditures but also discourage recipients from rushing to the doctor for every sneeze and sniffle. The whole concept of linking federal pensions to the rise in inflation should also be reexamined. Another worthy idea for curtailing entitlements...
...deductibility of conventions is a boondoggle for the relatively well-to-do. A valid point; poor people do not go to conventions much. Frets the lACVB's Hosmer: "It's the whole three-martini lunch idea. They may eventually start saying that a convention delegate can only deduct a portion of his expenses when he's in this country. Any Government restrictions on tax deductions for attending conventions militates against the convention business...
...always excuses for inaction. I seriously doubt the commitment of some participants to the fulfillment of their jobs. I had viewed the ACSR's investigation into South Africa as an attempt to determine what Harvard could do to help blacks in South Africa achieve majority rule. A significant portion of the committee does not seem to believe in majority rule even here at Harvard...