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...stemmed from undue financial caution towards building projects: at worst, it may have reflected a glaring lack of concern for the arts at Harvard. And it certainly suggests an irony in Bok's attitude towards the Fogg: that his supremely cautious outlook prompted him to act in a decidedly rash fashion...
...other shootouts with the Mujahedin, saying they were "useless psychological warfare." He also said he had appointed a new commander in chief, but did not divulge his name. Mujahedin sources said, however, that the new chief gave his first order the day after Khiabani's death. "Take no rash retaliatory action," he told his cadres. "This is a revolution, not a street brawl...
Most Wall Streeters dreaded the change, correctly predicting a rash of mergers among brokers and drastically altered ways of doing business in the securities markets. But Schwab, now 44, embraced negotiated rates. He began offering clients deep commission discounts on securities transactions, sometimes slashing them to only 30% or 40% of their former levels. Schwab quickly became the largest discount broker in the U.S., with offices in 40 cities, 600 employees and 220,000 clients. For its fiscal year ending last September, the firm had revenues of $42 million and profits of $5 million...
...quirks. Diebenkorn is a great stylist, and what gives life to style is a certain disequilibrium. These modest drawings clearly signal an interesting turn in his work. Will a series of paintings on the scale and quality of the Ocean Parks eventually come out of them? One would be rash to bet against it. -By Robert Hughes
...Rubik's Cube started out as a game. Then a cult developed and a rash of books told how to solve the puzzle. Now a Yale University professor is teaching a course on how to solve the multicolored cube...