Word: tail-end
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Certainly Harvard's investors enjoyed what was probably their best year ever. Riding the tail-end of the great bull market of 1982, the Harvard Management Company, which manages the University's endowment, boosted Harvard's bank account from $1.7 billion to $2.4 billion, the largest in American academia. Harvard plunged heavily into the stock market at one point almost 80 percent of the endowment was in equities. But the University in December shifted $300 million from stocks to bonds...
...women's studies search came at the tail-end of a great rise in the area's prominence in American universities. "The field is much more developed at other universities than it is here," says one professor. "Harvard's been a little late in coming...
After tearing apart the junior varsity pitching his freshman year and sitting on the bench for all but the tail-end of his sophomore season. Chicarello burst into the headlines with a truly incredible performance in the Crimson's three-way playoff against Yale and Cornell two years...
...will having Lau healthy for the stretch run. He has played every minute of every ECAC game for Harvard this season, except for the tail-end of the season-opening 11-1, trouncing of Dartmouth, and the knee injury that felled him in practice the day before the squad left for Princeton last February has completely healed...
...that tally, coming at the tail-end of one of the worst offensive stretches of the season for the icemen, brought Harvard as close as it was going to come...