Word: profitably
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this argument ignores the fact that the Harvard Corporation could use more of its enormous endowment to offset the costs of students' educations, thus lowering tuition fees. Why is it necessary to invest so much money in stocks, instead of paying for education? A university, being a non-profit organization, should be more concerned with providing quality service to its students, than with earning dividends...
...marginal raises, subsidized meals, school fee allowances, and personal loans are seen as panaceas which evade question of basic rights of workers. Moreover benevolence toward workers which may impress stockholders at home fails to get at issue of whether presence of foreign firms represents collusion with and effort to profit from apartheid...
...their stampede to buy before they missed out on potential profit, investors shrugged off news that only a fortnight ago might have sent prices into a spin. Some highly technical midweek moves by the Federal Reserve to drain money out of banks and thus nudge up interest rates depressed stock prices for only a few hours. Traders concentrated instead on cheerier trends, above all a long overdue rebound in the dollar on world markets...
...above all other considerations"' on the grounds that "partisan agitation on the part of undergraduates is secondary to the achievement of a deeper understanding of ethics, science and esthetics." Furthermore Ms. Esser writes that "by teaching students how such goals [morality, truth and beauty] are more more important that profit and power, Harvard guarantees that its students will never repeat the criminal greed of U.S. corporations now in South Africa...
Residents at the meeting said one abuse is non-profit organizations that falsely claim to be schools, such as one group that is building a structure with an underground pool, squash court and a sunken Japanese garden...