Word: provenance
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...dominated by a combination of massive oversimplification and a dash of jingoism on the side, peppered with arguments that appeal to visceral reactions at the expense of a nuanced stance on the most important issues facing Americans. This is nothing new. Though simple, this recipe has proven highly seductive—indeed, it has served to make the recent Republican party one of the most effective electoral agents in American history...
...payout goal but has exceeded that mark only once in the past decade. This is in large part due to consistently high investment returns, as the five percent target is based on a projected endowment growth rate of eight percent, which the last decade of returns has proven to be a conservative projection...
...payout goal, but it has exceeded that mark only once in the past 10 years. This is in large part due to consistently high investment returns, as the five percent target is based on a projected endowment growth rate of eight percent, which the last decade of returns has proven to be a conservative projection. Last year, governmental pressure led top Harvard officials to encourage deans to come up with programs to up spending through the use of strategic payouts and decapitalizations by which schools can receive additional money from the president and the Harvard Corporation, which is responsible...
...There is stability in Indonesia - and unlike in China or Vietnam, it isn't a side benefit of authoritarianism. Although S.B.Y. was reared in a brass-knuckles military environment, he has proven to be a capable civil administrator who's willing to delegate responsibility to technocrats within his administration. Meanwhile, he has started to deliver on the antigraft vows that got him elected. This month, a top prosecutor with the attorney general's office was sentenced to two decades in prison for accepting bribes. Even members of S.B.Y.'s inner circle are under scrutiny: two of his Cabinet members...
...McCain was broadly introduced to the public as an unconventional politician, a prisoner of war and a man of principle, and he received far more enthusiastic coverage than his Republican rival, George W. Bush. In recent days, the introduction of Sarah Palin, a newcomer on the national scene, has proven again that nothing creates a media feeding frenzy faster than a new face and an unconventional biography...