Word: bidness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Crimson heavyweight crew's loss to Penn and Navy on April 30 this year ended the squad's bid for its 14th undefeated season under the 26-year reign of Coach Harry Parker...
Former B-School Associate Professor of Industrial Marketing Barbara Bund Jackson '66, who charges that her 1983 tenure bid was biased because she is a woman, is suing Harvard and Dean of the Business School John H. McArthur for $847,000 and a tenured post. If Jackson succeeds, she will become the fifth tenured woman in the B-School's 80-year history, and one of four women among the current 90-member faculty...
...budgets have become a way of life at the network. So the news last week that CBS had outbid all rivals for the TV rights to the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville, France, came as a surprise. CBS will pay $243 million for its first Olympics since 1960. The bid seemed inordinately high to industry experts, in part because of the other networks' diffidence: NBC offered $175 million plus half of any advertising profits in excess of $325 million, while ABC, which paid $309 million for the Calgary Games and lost $65 million on the coverage, bowed out entirely. Adding...
...might get a license, Governor Mario Cuomo became determined that the plant would not start up. To ensure Shoreham's demise, the state decided to buy the facility, but talks with LILCO dragged on for six months, to the point where New York prepared a $7.8 billion takeover bid for the entire utility. Cuomo set a deadline of midnight, May 25 for LILCO either to sell the plant or face a takeover battle with the state. At 1:30 a.m. on May 26 the agreement was announced...
...report may demonstrate ethical insensitivities on Meese's part that will send the capital into another righteous convulsion. Virtually no Cabinet officer in memory has survived such trauma. The damage to Reagan's legacy, to the Republican Party and to Vice President George Bush's troubled presidential bid has already been severe...