Word: pulls
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Three times the council attempted to line up a spring concert, and three times it failed. If Harvard can pull in visiting scholars and speakers who students have actually heard of and the Hasty Pudding can attract top Hollywood talent to award each year, the least the student body can expect is a few rock concerts from known groups...
...often born of careful thought and high ideals. "I have never given a red cent to a panhandler, and I never will," declares Businessman Wade Lewis, 47, of Greenville, N.C. "I won't give anybody anything, but I will help somebody go through a trash can to pull out cans and claim the nickel deposit. People need to know that they have to work to get what they need...
...banks pull money out of Latin America, they are making other loans that could be equally risky. Though real estate loans helped get the S and L industry in trouble, they are now the fastest-growing segment of commercial- bank portfolios. For the first quarter of this year, 90% of the industry's $18 billion in new assets came from real estate loans...
...their time fund raising. Compensation is another sore point. While a professor typically earns $65,000 to $90,000 for nine months of service and the average dean receives $90,000 to $150,000 for a year's work, a star prof at a blue- ribbon school can pull in as much as $200,000 extra in consulting fees. Deans are not only frequently discouraged from moonlighting, they simply have no time...
...Hastings College of the Law, exemplifies the trend. Read enjoys "the hurly-burly of the dean's office," so much so that his new post is his fourth deanship. "A law-school dean is in some ways more like a football coach than an academician," he says. "You pull the team together, win as many battles as you can and move...