Word: profitted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard cushioned its losses by relying on hedging techniques, which insure that investors profit from their holdings despite market fluctuations, said Walter M. Cabot '55, president of Harvard Management Company, the University's in-house investment management team. "We tried to bet against what others were doing and we happened to be effective," he said...
...Faculty of Arts and Sciences showed a $9000 surplus on its $242 budget. The University's biggest profit center, the Extension School, took in a $1.7 million surplus on its $15 million budget...
Kennedy, executive director of Facing the Challenge, a non-profit organization he founded in 1985, said his group's goal was to "dismantle segregationist policies" that lead to the popular assumption that the disabled cannot have jobs, education or families...
...mine, my energy, my control," says MacLaine. "I want a big dome-covered meditation center and a series of dome-covered meeting rooms because spiritual energy goes in spirals. We'll grow all our own food and eat under another dome. I want to turn a profit with this so I can build another center and another. I want to prove that spirituality is profitable...
...ranchers, cowboys and range conservationists. We've come to Albuquerque for an intensive six-day workshop on the holistic management of natural resources: land, water, livestock and wildlife. Savory's special genius is combining high-minded idealism with thoroughgoing practicality, and he has a nose for generating profit in the process. His penchant for common sense is constantly fired by an indignation at how we have neglected our lands. "Nobody seems to care," he says, "and all the remedies have fallen short...