Word: chairmen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Ungeheuer, meanwhile, interviewed investment bankers, corporate chairmen and academic specialists. He also attended a symposium at Columbia University Law School on the ramifications of takeovers. Ungeheuer uses a different simile to describe the latest corporate craze: "During the 1960s, when I was a correspondent covering Africa, there were so many coups d'etat that it became tempting to ignore them. That's impossible to do with mergers: while the afflicted African countries seemed to get smaller and smaller, the mergers keep getting bigger and bigger...
...most professors, and some of their department chairmen, feel that small classes are important. "The university has an intellectual commitment to various subjects," says George G. Grabowiez, chairman of the Slavic Languages and Literatures Department, which this year is offering one single-person course. "Even though it may not be as popular, a course that attracts even one student may have great intellectual validity...
...after seeing the candidate who carried their standard trounced by a well-packaged Reagan, the chairmen have come around to Hart's point-of-view. They apparently see his tactic--simply evoking a nostalgic sense of the past--as the weapon of choice in the political battles of the future, rather than an outright fight against Reaganite principles...
...best of Hart's new ideas was to employ a capable hairdresser, and the worst of them was to avoid saying anything of substance. It's possible to see Hart as proof that the Democrats could run the kind of soulless campaign Reagan has mastered and which the state chairmen apparently want...
...CHAIRMEN SENSED that the Democrats of '86 and '88 and '92 would have to see the "Reagan Phenomenon" as a lesson in the need for neat packaging a keen sense of the symbolic they were probably right. We should be concerned that the Democratic National Committee sees its search for a symbol to replace the familiar donkey as good preparation for the upcomming campaign...