Word: stakes
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Earnings for the last fiscal year, which ended in June, have not yet been announced, though insiders say Harvard's investments had a great year. The reason? A heavy stake in foreign stocks, which currently amount to more than 18 percent of the University's holdings...
Those stocks, which haven't done much since 1990--when Harvard dramatically increased its stake in overseas markets--have taken off in recent months, far outpacing Wall Street. The result could be a gold mine for the University...
Then, the University was heavily invested insafe, but uninspiring domestic bonds, andunderweighted in foreign stocks, which took off inthe mid-1980s. Within nine months, Meyer reversedthat policy. By the close of fiscal 1991,Harvard's stake in U.S. bonds had been pared downby more than $500 million from a high of $1.3billion. Meanwhile, foreign stock holdings swelledby nearly $600 million, to $861 million...
Much more is in stake in Somalia than American prestige, or even the future of the current mission. Much of the future of the United Nations is being determined in Somalia now. Only in the last few years has the U.N. had the strength and unity to attempt such large-scale operations. Concepts like humanitarian intervention are very much works in progress. Cynics and isolationists are just waiting for a failure to clamp a lid on future operations...
...many Nigerians what is really at stake is not whether Abiola takes office, but whether they will ever have a country they can be proud of. Democracy advocates detest Babangida and the other soldiers -- who have ruled the country for 23 of its 33 years of independence -- for diminishing the Nigerian soul. Endemic corruption; the narrowing opportunities in the country that once held out so much promise; the exploitation of bitter rivalries among the three largest ethnic groups, the Yoruba, Ibo and Hausa-Fulani -- all have sapped the nation's resources, its cohesion, its confidence. Instead of building a nation...