Word: stakes
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...entertain and inspire people" has lately just incited a group of big-game-hunting shareholders, who want to see the Digest company restructured or sold. "This is a company that has been asleep," says Nell Minow, a principal of Lens, an activist Washington-based money manager with a substantial stake in the firm. "We are trying to bring them into the 20th century before we get to the 21st...
...April approaches, Harvard will be facing a dire picture if accepted students think with their bank accounts in mind. It is the time for the University to acknowledge what it has at stake: the diverse economic background of its students, its ability to compete on equal footing with its closest rivals, and ultimately its prestige and place in the eyes of applicants. It is time for Harvard to lower its tuition and to strengthen its system of financial aid. EDITORIAL POLICY: Staff editorials represent the official positions of The Harvard Crimson. Dissents, letters, illustrations and signed commentary reflect the opinions...
...December U.S. trade deficit continues - and there's every reason to believe it will - the Asian crisis could knock 1 percent off our GDP and wipe out 1 million American jobs," says Van Voorst.
stake for America in the forthcoming congressional debate over U.S. contributions to the International Monetary Fund's Asian bailout...
...principle that the College, while being as open as it can legally be in response to inquiries, should not go on the offensive against its own students in the court of public opinion. A different issue would have been presented had the safety of the community been at stake, but with Mr. Elster under arrest there was no question of public safety. (We had also done our best, before charges had been pressed, to ascertain that Mr. Elster was not a community danger--though our freedom of legal operation during that interval would have been very limited...
...their prestige: the growing numbers of top-notch students who opt to reject their admission offers in favor of highly ranked and significantly cheaper public universities like those in Chapel Hill, Berkeley and Ann Arbor. Now is the time for Harvard to acknowledge what it has at stake and to join Princeton, Yale and Stanford in providing better financial aid packages for its students...