Word: concert
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Eugene S. Kim '92, who chairs the social committee, said the council lost a chance to bid for a concert by the pop group Squeeze earlier this year because it did not have a "blank check." Squeeze accepted another offer before the council had a chance to meet...
After several unsuccessful attempts to secure an on-campus concert this year, the undergraduate Council last night authorized the council's executive committee to spend up to $35,000 for a performance...
Supporters of the resolution said that the move will give the committee the flexibility it needs to negotiate with concert promoters. But opponents, including the council's treasurer and the chair of the finance committee, said that $35,000 was too much money to leave to the discretion of the executive committee...
...blank check strategy for negotiating concert appearances was used by last year's council to sponsor performances by reggae artist Jimmy Cliff and folk star Suzanne Vega. But many council members blame the strategy for the $20,000 the council lost on the poorly-attended Vega show...
...whom the council had hoped to bring to Harvard, this week backed out of a potential deal for a spring concert. The council had allotted $25,000 for a concert by the new wave group...