Word: wayes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Major economic disasters might force Harvard to curtail academic programs or pay more attention to the financial resources of applicants. Putnam says, "Things maybe won't work the way we want them, and there might be disasters, but I think we can handle them...
...conservative market strategy through the 1960s, when other investors were taking ever-larger risks, and today--though it remains prudent compared to most private investors--Harvard is buying more stocks. "We think stocks got over-valued from 1950 to 1972, and now there's a pendulum swing the other way," Putnam says. "We're taking this as a long-term opportunity to get some damn good stocks cheap," Cabot says...
...Harvard moved all of its money into fixed-income bonds, he explains, it could easily earn 10 per cent income on the entire endowment each year. But that strategy would leave no way to raise the value of the endowment's principal over the long run. Inflation has chopped the endowment's real value (measured in dollars adjusted for inflation) by half over the past 15 years, Cabot says. So HMC keeps a balance between stocks and bonds within Corporation guidelines of at least 50 and at most 70 per cent in stocks. The mix usually hovers between...
...way, if you wanted to present a balanced view of Connally's proposed policy for the Middle East. I think you would have to make some mention of United Nations Resolution No. 242. Richard Partridge...
Reischauer said an assasination had become more likely recently as the only way to depose Park. Although the South Korean opposition party beat Park in last December's election, Park's 1972 constitution enabled him to retain control of the national assembly. Reischauer also pointed out that a popular uprising was impossible as long as the military supported Park...