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...waitresses, dishwashers and plumbers supplement their incomes by peddling products to customers. These products range from paper towels to soaps, and are invariably superior to the leading brand...
...Middies, who traditionally rely on agile and brawny football transplants to supplement their lack of finesse, will probably overpower the Crimson handily...
...made possible by the security and prestige of the tenurial system either give up voluntarily the guarantee of lifetime tenure or remit voluntarily as a gift to the University a substantial portion of the additional income accruing to them from outside work. Such latter funds might be used to supplement the dwindling scholarship monies available for undergraduates and graduate students, who are increasingly encouraged -- by the substitution of loan for scholarship programs -- to tie their own educational plans to market calculations...
...like tenured professors are adults who have chosen to pursue a scholarly career. One assumes that the Harvard Administration has adopted this measure because it is disturbed by abuses of the current fellowship program by graduate students with large, outside incomes. It doubtless can point to students who supplement comfortable outside incomes with scholarship funds. Only such reasoning can account for a measure designed to enforce a uniform--and low--standard on all graduate students. Judging from the administration of past standards of this sort at Harvard (e.g. in staff tuition scholarships) the effect on those who want to live...
Apart from the eternal problem of making what by their very nature are high-risk investments, venture capitalists face some other dangers. Rising interest rates are beginning to hurt those who supplement their own capital by borrowing money. Support is growing in Congress for proposals that would curtail the present liberal tax treatment for capital gains-now one of the prime incentives for wealthy investors to form venture capital groups. But as long as cash-strapped entrepreneurs dream of building giant companies, and wealthy investors savor the excitement of backing new ideas, the venture capital industry will be around...