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Though Warner's management permitted Bushnell to open an initial Pizza Time Theater restaurant in San Jose in 1977, the parent company never saw much future in the idea. In 1978 Bushnell resigned his chairmanship, put up $500,000 to buy back the Pizza Time concept from his old employer, and went into business for himself...
ROBERT MOSES dominated New York City like no man before him. Though never elected to any public office. Moses converted his many appointed posts--most important among them the chairmanship of the Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority--into control of every major construction project in the city from the late 1920's to the early 1970s. He built highways, bridges, parks, housing, and a vast array of public edifices among them Lincoln Center, the United Nations. Shea Stadium, and Co-op City...
...brand of pragmatism and his plan to question the legacy and reduce the influence of Mao Tse-tung, the party's Great Helmsman, who died in 1976. Although his power is still not supreme, Deng was able to shunt aside Mao's hand-picked successor to the chairmanship, Hua Guofeng, 61, who was accused of creating a "personality cult" around himself, committing "leftist errors" and opposing the policies advocated by Deng. Relegated to the positions of lowest-ranking Vice Chairman and junior membership in the Politburo, Hua was also obliged to resign as head of the Central Committee...
...brought to the marketplace. The clarification of federal patent regulations in recent years has given universities the incentive to ferret out potential patents and to license them to developers. Toward this end, Harvard established a Committee on Patents and Copyrights (CPC), which began work in 1977 under the chairmanship of Henry C. Meadow, dean for planning and special projects in the Faculty of Medicine, and which, according to executive director Stephen H. Atkinson '67, has always put the goal of serving the public before that of financing the University. "The whole slant of the patent committee and particularly Meadow...
...C.D.F. members are mostly junior (average service: 3½ terms). They do not hold a single major committee chairmanship, and they represent not "safe" one-party constituencies but seats that have been menaced by the rise of Southern Republicanism. The prominence of the forum members is a kind of electoral accident: the November election left just enough conservative Southern Democrats in the House to hold the balance of power on any issue that unites all Republicans against moderate-to-liberal Democrats...