Word: weightness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Despite a ballooning endowment, the University is moving forward with its efforts to shed a bit of extra weight in the form of unnecessary real estate holdings...
...also told them, 'Guys, we either do it like this, or we don't do it at all. It's your trademark, but if you don't do it this way, I'll go make another movie, and you'll have to find someone else.'" That argument carried some weight: Toho was the Japanese distributor of Devlin and Emmerich's Independence Day and made a bundle from...
...surprise, business travel is faltering beneath the weight of the economic turmoil in Asia--though often to the benefit of those who still travel there. More of them are likely to be from the West, since preliminary data indicate that, overall, Asians are staying home more these days--most dramatically in battered nations like South Korea, where it's considered unpatriotic to spend money outside the country. Last December, Korean airline companies, at the urging of the national tourism association, staged a demonstration at Seoul's Kimpo International Airport asking passengers not to fly abroad. Even in Singapore, where...
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Earlier this month, the House ofRepresentatives defeated the Riggs Amendment tothe Higher Education Act, which would have endedfederal funding to schools which continued to useaffirmative action in admissions. Rudenstine waswidely cited for playing a role in the amendment'sdefeat. He used a number of mechanisms, includingHarvard's institutional weight, to combat themeasure...