Word: profitability
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Savage is not alone in this point of view. As ETS continues to grow, and its "surplus funds" (it enjoys non-profit status) expand beyond the million-dollar mark, the legitimacy of standardized tests is being challenged from a variety of sources. The Bakke case raises serious questions about standardized tests--regarding the kind of information they reveal about a student and the possibility that the tests are culturally biased. The very existence of special admissions programs like the one at the University of California at Davis Medical School, from which Bakke was twice rejected, is based in part...
...academic property in Cambridge. The company, which will focus in particular on Harvard-owned housing, will attract more real estate "pros" than the old real estate office. Joe B. Wyatt, vice president for administration and head of the new firm, said. It might also attract a higher rate of profit for the University...
...Cambridge City Council last night voted, five to four, to table a bill that would declare a one-year moratorium on all building construction in Cambridge by non-profit, tax-exempt institutions, including Harvard University...
...city-wide moratorium bill stems from a petition residents of the Observatory Hill section of Cambridge submitted to the City Council earlier this year, demanding that the council halt construction in that neighborhood by several non-profit institutions, including Harvard...
...monstrous proportions, so much so that much of its fabled opulence has become a narcissistic orgy, celebrating the joys of popularity and immense wealth. The vulturistic entrepreneurs, represented in an earlier era by the smarmy Dick Clark, have been succeeded by the slicker, if equally self-inflating and profit-minded Don Kirshner types. Had The Last Waltz somehow fallen into the hands of such a producer, the movie would have been a shlocky disaster regardless of the music...