Word: spending
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...these administrators insist some athletes will choose to spend their undergraduate careers in the Ivy League because of what it has to offer both on and off the playing field, but mainly...
...problem is not the quality of drivers, nor the scheduling arrangement, nor the management, but quite simply the lack of space. In order to run a safe, effective, and convenient shuttle service, Harvard must spend more money to buy bigger buses, or to hire more drivers and supple more small buses for use during crowded hours. If this cannot be done, I recommend all shuttle service from the Quad to the River during class hours be halted immediately, as it is exceedingly dangerous, ineffective, and frustrating. Jeffrey Stern '90 Cabot House
...this amounts to is that teen-agers are, well, "teen" for much longer than before. That state, the gap between puberty and marriage, used to be about 6 years for women, 9 for men. Now, those figures are closer to 10 and 12. Today's teen-agers have to spend 3 or 4 more biological years than their grandparents in the nebulous limbo between childhood and adulthood...
...cannot spend five minutes in Harvard Square these days without someone coming up to me to ask, "Luke, when are you going to start playing again?" As if I'd stopped playing voluntarily. The truth of the matter is that the "Luke Show" has been effectively banned from Harvard Square...
...stakes in the pie fight are high. Even as growth in fast-food sales (1987 U.S. total: $56 billion) is slowing, pizza purchases are booming. Americans will spend an estimated $15 billion on pizza this year, more than twice what they spent just five years ago. As pizza has become more popular, the chains have seemingly sprinkled their outlets on every street corner: Pizza Hut, the largest, has more than 5,400 outlets in the U.S. and 6,200 worldwide. Even McDonald's has test-marketed a pie, McPizza. With so much competition, "it's not enough anymore just...