Word: wealth
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Stocks, intangible bits of Harvard's unfathomable wealth, occupy a distant realm for students preoccupied with classes, activities, and social life. But the administration, elitism and prejudice on campus influence our daily lives...
...have done. This culture's predominant ethic dictates that the acquisition of "more"--more money, more material goods, more power than others have--is the only acceptable goal of life. The now-famous saying, "The one who dies with the most possessions, wins," reflects the concept that tangible wealth is the standard on which success should be measured...
...take advantage of American military might. It is not the thousands of warheads dotting the Eastern hemisphere and pointing at U.S. cities that are the main threat to our status as a superpower, but our increasing dependency on foreign powers. There has been a transfer of wealth from the U.S. to Japan that could not have been imagined 25 years ago, as America fell from being the world's largest creditor to the world's largest debtor...
...painful drama to watch. Meese is not, at heart, an evil or fundamentally dishonest man. Unlike some others who have surrounded Reagan over the years, he has not sought to cash in his position for great wealth. But he is careless, perhaps uncomprehending, too hurried and a bad judge of people, events and ethical strictures. Whether or not he has committed a crime, he has too often proved blind to the elevated standards expected of the top law officer in the land. The improprieties are easy for the public to understand: he appeared to help friends who helped him financially...
First, the entire Harvard community should step back once in a while and realize how lucky it is to have a wealth of quality intercollegiate sports. From ice hockey to tennis to squash to soccer to lacrosse to crew. Crimson teams and athletes have consistently been among the best in the nation during my tenure here. I doubt that any other school of comparable size--and certainly of comparable scholastic quality--has had nearly the broad record of success that Harvard has enjoyed...