Word: quarters
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...grow overseas businesses. Recent purchases by Chinese financial institutions have not turned out well. Insurer Ping An, which paid $3.5 billion for around 5% of Fortis, a European financial group, has decided to write off most of that investment after Fortis' share price fell 78% in the fourth quarter...
...good position thanks to Jane’s work,” says Deborah F. Kuenstner, Wellesley’s current chief investment officer. “She’s very good at thinking about the endowment in a long-term context—not just [in] this quarter or this year.”For much of her tenure at Harvard thus far, Mendillo has worked from dawn to dusk to not only salvage whatever returns remain in a dismal financial landscape, but also to take advantage of investment opportunities that may emerge as the storm calms...
...April, the administration was asking House Masters to submit budgets to accommodate a 25-percent reduction, which led both House administrators and students to voice concern over slashing a quarter of an already sparse budget...
...quarter-century after he graduated from the Law School, others who know Spitzer more vividly remembered his superhuman work ethic...
...January 22, 1984, during the third quarter of Superbowl XVIII, an advertisement aired that would change the world’s perception of computing. As faceless gray drones marched lockstep down a long metallic tunnel, a sledgehammer wielding woman, clad in red and white sportswear raced past them. She approached an enormous screen casting Big Brother’s unhappy gaze upon the crowd and the woman launched the projectile, shattering his visage. The screen froze and words began to scroll: “On January 24th, Apple Computers will introduce Macintosh. And you?...