Word: tubs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Harvard, for many years, has been a tub-eat-tub world. Now, as President Neil L. Rudenstine prepares for a massive capital campaign, Harvard's schools are once again preparing to compete for University resources...
...sense that people even in the well-off tubs recognize that `every tub on its own bottom' had been taken to a dysfunctional extreme," Murphy says. "There's a more cooperative spirit...
...broader argument about whether the University's bottom line benefits from its decentralized, every-tub-on-its-own-bottom policy is not our concern here. But when one area is in particular need, Rudenstine and Green should not hesitate to act more forcefully in setting budgetary priorities. (The raise would cost the University as a whole about $3.2 million; the operating budgets add up to about $1 billion...
...couple of small bathrooms. For two hours Bruce, his foot braced on the sink, pressed his 200-lb. frame against the door to keep the hurricane from ripping it open. They heard glass shatter and stick in the walls. Water poured in around the medicine chest, and the tub rattled itself away from the wall. Roof tiles flew under the door. "I've never been so scared in my life," recalls Brocato. "I hope I die if I'm ever that afraid again. We all dirtied our pants...
Second, some of Harvard's deans are quitesatisfied with the "every tub on its own bottom"system, which allows them a great deal of freedomto set their own goals and agendas...