Word: benjamin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Shriver, a team spokesman, said "we never thought the trip was going to come through." But the club contacted several notables, such as Benjamin Bradlee, executive editor of the Washington Post, and Cyrus Vance, former Secretary of State, for their support. "Everyone leaped at the idea," Shriver said...
Many Erie officials, not surprisingly, condemn the proposed slashing of CETA funds. Says Mayor Louis Tullio: "It's going to have a drastic effect on the nonprofit agencies, on the services they provide, and on the city of Erie." R. Benjamin Wiley, executive director of the Greater Erie Community Action Committee, which administers CETA programs, is even more vehement in describing the impact. "There's going to be more crime and more homicides," warns Wiley. "The bottom line is that if these programs are cut, you're putting more people out there on the unemployment line...
...portable TV sets with keyboards, have advanced from being toys for electronic tinkerers to important tools in small businesses, schools and an increasing number of homes. Sales are growing so rapidly that personal computers are the leading product in the explosive field of electronic calculating and information equipment. Says Benjamin Rosen, the editor of a computer industry newsletter: "The under $10,000 sector of the market is going to be one of the great growth industries of the 1980s...
...president's first day in office, Benjamin Shen, acting provost, resigned, in a move that stunned the University. Citing a recent recurrence of a back ailment, Shen said he took on the position to help the University out of its temporary problems, but does not want to be considered for the permanent position of provost...
...Virtually unknown two years ago, Smith suddenly burst onto the boxing scene in 1979 flashing mysteriously huge sums of cash. As chairman of Muhammad Ali Professional Sports (MAPS), he became almost overnight the leading big-time fight promoter. One of the members of the MAPS board of directors is Benjamin Lewis, 47, who until three weeks ago was an operations officer at a Beverly Hills branch of Wells Fargo and had authority to use the bank's computers...