Word: term
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...team will try to get club status in the spring term. If interest is heavy, the squad hopes to become an intercollegiate team...
Some Harvard students who have worked with Guernsey support this fast. "In the long term it will be potentially effective to have folks reminded that people are willing to do this," said Daniel Buchanan '89, co-director of the University Lutheran Shelter, which is run by a committee of Phillips Brooks House. Guernsey has served as an advisor to the shelter...
...Chile in his proud and dictatorial grasp -- once even boasting that "there is not a single leaf in this country that I do not move." So why shouldn't he have believed that Chileans would vote si last week in an extraordinary plebiscite on whether to extend his presidential term to 1997? But shortly before 2 a.m. on Thursday, an ashen-faced official stepped from La Moneda, the presidential palace in Santiago, and headed for a nearby government building. There he told TV viewers that the public had said no to the extension. The final tally, with 7.2 million votes...
...securities held for less than one year. At the same time, capital gains on securities held for more than five years could be reduced from a maximum of 33% to 15%, possibly on a sliding scale. The effect of such a tax change would be to inhibit short-term trading activities of large institutional investors by making long-term holdings much more attractive economically...
...proliferation of speculative financial instruments is tied to the new role of institutional investors. In fact, the term institutional investor is becoming a contradiction in terms. Too many institutions no longer invest. Instead they speculate -- in every type of financial vehicle from options to junk bonds, from real estate to foreign exchange. They are active players in the takeover game, encouraging corporations either to sell out or to engage in highly leveraged restructurings essentially aimed at maximizing short-term trading profits. But while the managers of institutional funds engage in this speculation, the money is not theirs. They are risking...