Word: vitalize
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...University’s official investment firm, charged with maintaining the school’s greatest source of income, the management company is perhaps Harvard’s most vital and yet most controversial arm. While recent returns—21.1 percent last fiscal year—have drawn the envy of Wall Street, critics continue to assail Harvard’s aggressive investments, not to mention the multi-million-dollar salaries paid out each year to its top endowment managers...
...right. Team America is a throwback to the kind of movie that casts the establishment as the good guy and everyone who goes against them as either evil or woefully misinformed. While, to many, such a theme may seem ironic, what makes this movie so pertinent and vital is the fact that this unthinking good-vs.-evil mentality may be more widespread than we’d like to believe. On the other hand, this movie also tells me that beating the hell out of puppets is funny...
Predicting the future direction of the sport, Gammons noted the vital role of player diversity in attracting new fans. 32 percent of major-league players, he said, are foreign born, and that figure increases to 43 percent in the minor leagues...
Comfort is key this season, and warmth a necessity. What better way to achieve these two vital winter-time goals than to bundle up with a comfy, protective, yet trendy winter jacket—trimmed, of course, with a fur hood. Harper’s Bazaar and Vogue, the Bibles of the fashion sophisticate, have both featured fur in recent issues. The jackets have been seen everywhere this winter and in all shapes, colors, sizes...
...second bill to pass Congress over the last two weeks would save the federal government some loose change by modifying the formula that qualifies students for federal Pell Grants—important, often vital, government college-aid awards based on financial need. Under the proposed changes, students whose parents make between $25,000 and $30,000 will receive less funding. But the largest changes will be amongst those who earn between $30,000 and $45,000—no fortune in light of the high cost of American tuition. 84,000 students stand to lose their grants altogether. Given that...