Word: shift
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Harvard security guard Ernie Duardte was working an overtime shift in the basement of Weld Hall Friday morning when he found a stolen backpack in a downstairs bathroom...
...just cleared the last remnants of breakfast when it is time to get ready for lunch. Any anthropologist studying the tribes of a U.S. high school would envy the observation post Giessmann has manned for the past 19 years behind the cafeteria steam table. She has watched students' tastes shift from meat loaf to pizza and from nice skirts to shorts with panties hanging out--"If they even wore panties," Giessmann sniffs. She knows that most students these days earn spending money at part-time jobs, but she also knows to call the school detective "when I see kids with...
That's still the case. But a shift is under way, one that has highlighted Berkshire's operating performance, and is forcing Wall Street to change the way it looks at the stock. Buffett has been buying more whole companies than company shares in recent years. Just last week he signed a deal to buy all of Jordan's Furniture, a New England retailer with $250 million in annual sales. His biggest deals, though, have been in insurance, starting with auto insurer Geico in 1996 and then the $22 billion acquisition of reinsurer General...
...This shift has come at a price. Berkshire's famous five-digit stock quote finished last week at $57,000 for the A shares. That's way down from the March 12 high of $81,100, and some analysts are calling it a bargain. From high to low, the stock fell 33% last summer, its steepest decline in a decade. Seldom has Buffett put such a hurt on his shareholders. Doing so now, while the economy sparkles and the stock market remains up for the year, is especially vexing...
With funds freed up from administrative deadweight, Radcliffe can shift money into the research centers and educational programs that are its lifeblood...