Word: wealth
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Another criteria in the treasurer search which boded well for MacDougall was that the Corporation sought a Boston area resident with enough independent wealth to insure that he could commit himself fairly heavily to the ostensibly part-time...
Each day at the Boston offices of the Harvard Management Company (HMC), Harvard's seventh-floor trading room shakes with activity as a staff of investors scrambles to keep the University's wealth growing...
...issues fundamental to the long-term financial health of Harvard--governmental relations and fundraising. The resolution of a long-brewing dispute with the federal government over the management of research funds here and the slowing of Harvard's fundraising drive were ample reminder of the frailey of Harvard's wealth, even in these heady days of economic recovery...
Biological determinism (biologism) has been a powerful mode of explaining the observed inequalities of status, wealth, and power in contemporary industrialist capitalist societies, and of defining human "universals" of behavior as natural characteristics of these societies. As such, it has gratefully been seized upon as a political legitimator by the New Right...
...drastic an approach to the country's socioeconomic problems; the revolutionary left says that it is doing too little, too late. In the U.S., the program has provoked both skepticism and confusion over its aims and its ultimate usefulness in dealing with El Salvador's extremes of wealth and poverty...