Word: treating
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...guarantee a high level of alumni giving. The only sources left for them to draw on are student fees and the endowment. Harvard's financial strategy takes into account not just the Class of 1980 but the Class of 2080 as well. As a result, the administration tends to treat the endowment as a sacred cow: in accordance with classic accounting principles, college financial officers avoid dipping into the principal of the endowment...
...theory is that people treat cold as a shared stress experience. If you eliminate this common bond caused by external conditions, the natural tendency would be for people to drift apart," Spring said...
BACK IN THE DAYS of antiquity, when Hippocrates taught medicine, it was a sin for a doctor to treat patients with anything much stronger than a shot of honey and water or a dose of strong laxative. But a couple of millenia later, upstart science started to push treatment past the limits prescribed by the Father of Medicine. The discovery of germs in the late 1800s finally toppled most of Hippocrates' cautions. Lab men found drugs that could enter the body and destroy the vile little creatures where they did their dirty work. Disease was something to be attacked without...
...both resemble Bette Davis in her middle years. They approach, incline the planes of their cheeks. Three to four inches from contact, they close their eyes in a split-second transport of fraudulent bliss, and smack their lips minutely upon nothing, as if releasing little butterflies. A somewhat rarer treat: the "hair tangle," which requires a tall, long-haired woman and a shorter man; woman inclines head to offer cheek, man goes to peck cheek, woman's hair falls in way, man ends with lips and glasses entangled in hair. Rapid disengagement follows...
...State Dining Room, thanking each person individually. When Vice President Nelson Rockefeller declared that "this is the proudest moment of our lives," a wave of applause washed over the room. Said Ford in response: "You all contributed to an Administration I think was good-and which history will treat kindly...