Word: budded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...businessman to expand his holdings in Cambridge. The old University Theater was beginning to decay; Harvey bought it and had it slightly remodelled--the new "two-speed" chairs were installed, reducing the capacity from 1889 to 1689, the premises were cleaned, and prices were raised substantially. Manager Clarence "Bud" Kramer '56 explained the new philosophy (same as the old): "It will be your Hollywood films with some good foreign films spotted...
...overwhelmed in our efforts to stay in the black." TWA, which unlike Pan Am has a far-flung network of domestic routes to supplement its international operations, has been off subsidy for 20 years and did not specify the exact amount of aid it seeks. Nonetheless, President Forwood C. ("Bud") Wiser Jr. estimated a 1974 pretax loss, without subsidy, of $47.2 million, compared with a 1973 profit of $19.5 million. Together, the two lines' applications could cost the U.S. Treasury about $300 million a year...
Irwin A. (Bud) Lewis discussed his work at an Institute of Politics study group on the 1974 elections. "To have the right answers on election night, you have to ask the right questions 24 months earlier," Lewis says. His staff spends those two years selecting, staffing and polling the over 4000 sample precincts around the country to be used for projecting and anlayzing races on that final, frenzied night of the election. By that night, his staff is up to 10,000 people...
...Chicago, and Chicagoans could call him in New York with Bell collecting only for the local service. AT&T refused to provide that service, so MCI petitioned the federal district court in Philadelphia, and won. Had MCI lost, AT&T could have nipped the growing competition in the bud: fewer clients would pay for MCI lines if they could phone only their own offices in other cities. AT&T then attempted to delay further court orders that it grant MCI its services. Last week the Third Circuit Court of Appeals rejected A T & T's request. Bell plans...
When spectators saw that they and athletes have similar lives, fan involvement increased. The increased fan identification with the players led to the bottle-throwing incident in Shea Stadium during last season's N.L. playoffs. Poor little Bud Harrelson had to be protected from the big brute, Pete Rose, and bottles were a handy weapon...