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...Harvard Corporation is currently pursuing a detrimental but profit-maximizing strategy which would keep only eight of its 700 housing units reasonbly priced. Local leaders have demanded that Harvard sell its buildings to the city, which would still give Harvard a substantial return. Instead the Corporation plans to reap larger gains while driving long-term neighbors from their homes. The Harvard Corporation's behavior is particularly reprehensible in light of its identity as a not-for-profit institution, a status which allows Harvard to dodge its tax obligations to the city...
...disseminating their misinformation about gays and lesbians in the workplace, Friskopp and Silverstein are encouraging people who are perfectly happy with being closeted to come out and reap the "benefits" of being out. This is dangerous, because many of these individuals will encounter hardship and discrimination as a result of disclosing their orientation...
...promises and mega-plans that usually guarantee electoral victory. But we hope that our present council membership will be far-sighted, and set themselves and the council on a course which will radically alter the meaning and the power of the council in the long run. They may not reap the glory today, but sometime in the future new generations will look upon them as the brave men and women who put an end to the bombast and just got down to business...
...stake of $1 million. As such, they are not subject to the same regulations imposed on mutual funds by the Securities and Exchange Commission. By selling short securities whose prices they expect to fall and taking highly leveraged positions, hedge-fund managers can take bigger risks and, they hope, reap bigger rewards...
...recently been said that violence is over-glorified in society today, and that people reap too much pleasure from brutality. If that is indeed the case, they must have been doing cartwheels in the MAC last night...