Word: spent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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HARVARD, thanks once again to its vast stock holdings, is getting a chance to put itself at the vanguard of the newest shareholder activism drive--divesting from American tobacco companies--and it looks as though it may accept the challenge. This may come as a surprise after Harvard spent more than a decade resisting calls for its divestment from stocks in South Africa-related companies...
Kennedy is a cosponsor of HR 918, a measure that would keep rents low for poor families and would increase funds for housing assistance. Mahoney said the bill Kennedy prefers would authorize a sum "comparable" to $15 million but is more specific on how the money should be spent...
...Pollyanna -- predicted the 1980s economy correctly. The decade began with the deepest recession since the Great Depression, engineered by the Federal Reserve Board to purge inflation. The early Reagan deficits helped stimulate the economy back into expansion -- a classic exercise in Keynesianism of the sort the President has spent his political career deploring (and still deplores, given half a chance...
...split second as she was nipped by the Soviet Union's Erika Salumae in the final heat of their best-of-three face-off. "It would have been fantastic to win the gold medal," said Luding philosophically, "but it was not possible." An Estonian, Salumae, 26, has spent two years in close rivalry with the East German: in the 1986 world championships, she lost to Luding in the sprint final; last year she reversed the order...
...perhaps the last real amateurs in the field are those who watch, the ones who have not spent four years pumping iron or hype. They are the ones who enjoy the Amateur's Games, the behind-the-scenes, behind-the-screen games that are made not for TV but V.T. (as in "visceral thrill"): the Olympic Games for those who want to play at being kids again. They begin by sneaking around the back of the Olympic stadium just before the opening ceremonies, to get close-ups of the athletes, out of line and out of synch, as they prepare...