Word: addresses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Consequently, black schools have had to address one of their oldest financial weaknesses: small and infrequent alumni donations. In November, when Bill and Camille Cosby made a $20 million gift to Spelman College, the event received widespread publicity; yet modest donations have been the norm. That shows signs of changing, however. During the past fiscal year, alumni support at Alabama's Tuskegee Institute topped $1 million for the first time, aided by three gifts of $125,000 or more...
...done everything in his power to prevent Eastern from folding. He recalls the options that former Eastern Chairman Frank Borman described for the airline in 1986: "Fix it, sell it, or tank it." Unable to fix it, Borman sold it. As the bankruptcy court now begins to address the formidable task of putting Eastern back together again, Lorenzo was facing the possibility last week that tanking Eastern may yet turn out to be the only choice left...
...Athens the Prime Minister fought back by accusing his political and "foreign" opponents of conspiring to overthrow him. Looking drawn and nervous, Papandreou defended himself in a 15-minute televised address to the nation. He dismissed Koskotas' "despicable allegations" as part of an "unprecedented political conspiracy" aimed at destroying "Papandreou, the government, democracy and the independence of the country" to restore a "regime of dependence and subjugation." In fact, declared Papandreou, "not a trace of the mud flying from all sides touches me." He went on to claim that he had spared no effort in making the "truth shine." Finally...
...issue agenda too is pulled in many directions at once. The peripatetic President delivers several speeches a week, and sometimes several a day, on subjects as diverse as drugs, volunteerism, government service, ethics, education, child care and the minimum wage. On the morning after his Feb. 9 budget address, he flew to Canada. Then he exhausted his staff (though not himself) on a whirlwind five-day tour to Japan, China and South Korea, including formal meetings with two dozen foreign leaders that required extensive preparation and diverted the Administration from the efforts to confirm Tower and to fill other vacant...
...charter puts forth, to obtain an equal education for women at Harvard, then it should not wait for women to seek out its programs, but should actively educate women and men on campus and in the community about existing gender discrimination. Radcliffe should work with Harvard to address questions about how our society might more adequately meet women's needs in the classroom, the boardroom and the workplace...