Word: benefit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sure, there are similarities. Both men have been accused of using their office to benefit friends and acquaintances: Meese's former personal lawyer E. Robert Wallach and, in Wright's case, oilmen and investors in the Speaker's home state of Texas. And though the personalities of the genial California-bred Attorney General and the peppery Texas Speaker differ, they are alike in one way. Says Ted Van Dyk, a Washington lobbyist who knows the two: "Both apparently wear blinders" that prevent them from seeing appearances of impropriety in their actions...
...Ford has started to operate like a fully integrated global company. It has turned its technical facilities in five countries into what Petersen calls "centers of excellence." Each center is assigned projects that will benefit the company as a whole. Some of the facilities may work on a particular engine, while others may design and engineer common platforms -- the suspension and other undercarriage components -- for an entire family of autos. Ford of Europe, which has its headquarters in Brentwood, England, has been delegated to develop platforms for all three of Ford's compacts: the Tempo, the Topaz and the European...
Also in April the council decided to co-sponsor an Otis Day and the Knights benefit concert with a public service group at the Business School. But that show was cancelled the night before it was to go on as the result of a dispute between Knight and the Business School organizers over ticket sales...
...past year, undergraduates in Historical Studies A-25: "The Peopling of America", used allegations of "racial insensitivity" to slander Winthrop Professor of History Stephan Thernstrom. The students took particular issue with the professor's statement in class that some who supported the enactment of Jim Crow laws aimed to benefit Blacks by preventing contact with antagonistic whites...
Only a handful of musical events livened up an otherwise lackluster year. HarvAid brought Pete Seeger and many too-rarely-seen folk artists to Sanders Theatre for a two-night divestment benefit. The Din and Tonics gave away free gewgaws, such as cheap toys and cans of WD-40, to everyone in their Sanders audience. Sophomore Jonathan Shecter started a rap group, B.M.O.C., and released a single about Harvard that showed surprising candor about his creative motivations: "I'm a Harvard undergrad, a scholarly scholar/And I'm using rap music to make me dollars." Musically, these events weren't much...