Word: concessioner
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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The one concession that the Living Wage Campaign has won from the administration is the establishment of a Faculty task force to examine Harvard's current employment practices.
The response of Richard Gephardt was typical. As ranking Democrat in the House of Representatives, Gephardt felt compelled to release a statement, but there was about his words something wan and attenuated. "Ultimately," he said, "the answer will not be found in state legislatures or in the halls of Congress...
But even NATO's rejection of the Serb offer contained a concession -- the idea that the army protecting returning refugees would be an "international" rather than a NATO force. This allowed for Russian involvement, and opened up the issue of the composition of the Kosovo peacekeeping force -- which was not...
There was more than just a p.r. battle between DreamWorks and Miramax over whether Miramax "bought" the Best-Picture Oscar for Shakespeare in Love by spending record sums on advertising. There was a big wager too. DreamWorks partner JEFFREY KATZENBERG bet WARREN BEATTY that Miramax would print more ads by...
Lamont could easily find an eager partner for this venture. The aggressive little C'est Bon, which has recently entered an expansionist phase, would probably love to open a concession in the library, thereby paving the way for a C'est Bon in Widener, the History Department's tutorial office...