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Harvard has generally stayed ahead of the market, with sluggish years balancing out against booms. Since 1973, the endowment has grown by more than 10 percent in five of 11 years; Harvard took a fall in 1973 when it lost 10.1 percent, but last year the University registered its most lucrative year ever--riding the bull market of 1982. Harvard scored $700 million in gains, boosting the endowment to $2.4 billion, the highest in the nation...
...show continued against Yale. Harvard outscored the sluggish Bulldogs by 55 points, ensuring a perfect mark in dual meets. Against the Elis, the Crimson finished as victors in all but three events and second in eight of them...
...much that the acting is awful, although none of the cast. Winger included--manages to shine. Not is it really that the film lacks the necessary element of suspense, though it often seems sluggish and predictable. What's really disturbing about Mike's Murder is that as hard as it tries to say something, the film never really says anything...
...Georgia Gazette, who won a Pulitzer Prize last week, is a graduate of Columbia and the University of California at Berkeley who worked for the Associated Press, the Baltimore Sun and the Atlanta Constitution. In 1978 he returned to his home town to battle what he saw as the sluggish daily Savannah News and Press. The Gazette broke a succession of stories, not always to the delight of readers: the paper was nearly put out of business by advertising and circulation losses after it violated the wishes of a prominent local family and reported in 1980 that a missing...
...renewed focus on manufacturing is far from voluntary. It was forced on corporations by two withering recessions in the past decade and an influx of cheaper and frequently better-made foreign goods. It was prompted too by sluggish productivity. While U.S. factories still outproduce those of any other country in the world, the average annual increase in productivity has slipped to less than 2% since 1973, down from 3% in the two decades after World War II. In Japan manufacturing efficiency has been increasing 7% per year, while in West Germany it has grown more than...