Word: auguste
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...position of the Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibilty (ACSR) on University holdings in tobacco companies, including RJR-Nabisco. The ACSR requested that the Corporation write letters to RJR-Nabisco and Philip Morris asking the companies to explain their marketing techniques in developing nations. The Corporation sent these letters in August. The ACSR will make no further recommendation until Harvard receives replies to these requests...
...Puhak said she did talk with Werlin between June and October. "The first week in September I called and talked to him briefly. I asked about Paine Hall and he said, 'fine'," she said, adding that she had also spoken with Werlin in August and July...
...forces should get some breathing space because of approaching winter and their recent battlefield successes. The Soviet-Afghan retreat from the valley was triggered when the rebels overran a government stronghold at Tambana last May. Then in August and September, Jamiat fighters expanded their control by sweeping through the northeastern cities of Khanabad, Taliqan, Keshem and most of Kunduz, the provincial capital. That leaves only one town, Faizabad, in government hands in the northeast...
...FIRST SALUTE by Barbara W. Tuchman (Knopf; $22.95). The distinguished and eminently readable historian (The Guns of August) sets the American Revolution against the struggles of 18th century Europe for colonies and commerce. Among her heroes: the hardy Dutch, who were first to recognize officially the birthright of the new American nation...
SUMMER DOLDRUMS; FALL RECRIMINATIONS. Why did the Dukakis campaign wait so long to fire back at the negative ads aired by the Bush campaign in August? Because of campaign manager Susan Estrich's demanding tastes, say some of the Duke's admen. "There had to have been at least a thousand scripts in drawers, stacked up all over the place," says one advertising veteran in the campaign. "They were all sent to Estrich, and she killed every one of them." By Labor Day, the sources claim, only two lackluster spots -- both lifted directly from Dukakis' convention speech -- managed...