Word: wealth
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...although the argument has an appealing ring to it, it is moot. Other universities and colleges as Owen acknowledges, simply do not have the kind of alumni wealth that makes Harvard's capital drive--the largest attempted by a college--possible...
With this incredible wealth, however, comes an enormous responsibility for Harvard. Especially if it is going to make the argument, as officials have, that a new infusion of capital is necessary for Harvard to retain its leadership in American education. Harvard can't make other schools raise more money, but it can make more of an active effort to help out struggling schools on all levels with non-financial resources. More programs are needed like the plans presently forming to have Harvard help retrain Cambridge public school teachers...
...slick efficiency of the Campaign and the apparent certainty trhat it will reach its mark is slightly disconcerting. But it doesn't have to be that way if Harvard lives up to the responsibility its enormous wealth and fundraising success bring...
Daily we experience the increasing militarization of our lives: the pervasive surveillance of citizens who express dissent democratically by military intelligence: the lack of mercy and prudence shown by special military units against suspected criminals: the unexplained wealth of many military officers...
...letter accuses the President's program of being "extremely regressive in its impact on our society, redistributing wealth and power from the middle-class and poor to the rich, and shifting more of the tax burden away from business and onto low- and middle-income consumers...