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...subject of HMC’s management strategy has come to a head in the past. The ballooning growth of Harvard’s endowment to surpass $10 billion in 1997, Meyer says, prompted the board to review HMC’s structure to determine whether a restructuring or outsourcing was needed. In the end, Harvard elected to maintain its in-house investment outfit because the board determined that, even with its problems, HMC was still the most practical group to manage the endowment...
...subject of HMC’s management strategy has come to a head in the past. The ballooning growth of Harvard’s endowment to surpass $10 billion in 1997, Meyer says, prompted the board to review HMC’s structure to determine whether a restructuring or outsourcing was needed. In the end, Harvard elected to maintain its in-house investment outfit because the board determined that, even with its problems, HMC was still the most practical group to manage the endowment...
...Crimson (17-6, 7-0 Ivy) is determined not only to match the efforts of two years past, but to surpass them, starting with its first-round match against No. 42 Maryland (11-11) this afternoon at the Beren Tennis Center...
...long way to come before being a Thatcherite." MARGARET THATCHER, British Prime Minister from 1979 to 1990, on Labour leader Tony Blair's historic re-election to a third term. Blair needs to remain Prime Minister until November 2008 to surpass Thatcher's record of 11 years and 209 days in office
...later, players are still trying to catch Ty Cobb. Maury Wills first did it in 1962 when he ran by the old mark of 96 stolen bases in a season. Now Pete Rose, barring calamity, will exceed the hallowed record of 4,191 hits. But, like Wills, he will surpass only the man, not the icon...