Word: buttons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...When a button marked "HARV" flashes on the telephone switchboard in almost 50 investment banking firms on Wall Street, stock traders know that the nation's richest university wants to do some business. At Harvard Management Company (HMC) in Boston's financial district, one of the four traders simply places a call on one of the 90 direct lines to the money moguls to ask, "What's your market in stock X, Y, or Z?" Through such second-long transactions, Harvard traders shuffle around an average of $4 million each day. In the last three months, under HMC's care...
...contribution of $7 million, Levi Strauss gets to create the official outfit of the class of '86. Gone are black gowns and mortarboards. In their place: for the guys, boot-cut denims, snap-button Western shirts with solid-color yokes and Stetson hats; for the gals, knee-length gingham skirts, Lady Fryes and matching blouses and bandannas. Members of the Harvard Corporation and other honored guests on the dais wear full-length cowhide chaps...
...battle in a war we're going to win," declared White House Communications Director Patrick Buchanan. "We will never give up," vowed the President as he posed for photographers with three contra leaders who had flown to Washington to plead with legislators on Capitol Hill. He held up a button that read IF YOU LIKE CUBA, YOU'LL LOVE NICARAGUA...
...more employees are becoming fed up with working alongside people who are stoned. Says a news correspondent for a major New York City TV station: "After all, you work for days sometimes to make a story the best you can, and then some drug-abusing idiot pushes the wrong button when you're on the air. Why should I put up with that...
...ease with which a network producer can press a button and bring in a distant image got ABC into trouble with the White House on Wednesday night following President Reagan's nationally televised speech on defense spending. Taking advantage of its hookup with Moscow, the network gave Posner an opportunity to comment for seven minutes. This infuriated Patrick J. Buchanan, Reagan's director of communications, who criticized ABC in a letter for giving air time to a "trained propagandist." Richard Wald, ABC News senior vice president, agreed in a statement that the network had erred by "letting (Posner) push...