Word: consulting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Christmas at St. Henry's was a check for $20,000. "I had never seen a check for $20,000," he recalls with wonder. He wrote its author, the president of a cement company, a note of gratitude. Four days later (the tax deduction-minded might want to consult a calendar about here, cynics that they be) another check arrived from the same cement baron, bearing the same amount. Suddenly the building fund had feet...
...mount an effective campaign. Cruz and Sandinista Directorate Member Bayardo Arce Castano apparently agreed in Rio to postpone the balloting until Jan. 13. But the deal fell apart, according to some of those at the Rio gathering, when the Sandinistas refused to allow Cruz a three-day delay to consult with his allies in Nicaragua...
...Detroit Tigers are overconfident carrying a 2-0 lead into the final three games of their series with the Kansas City Royals, perhaps they should consult the Harvard women's volleyball team...
...rebel forces of Habré's onetime ally and ousted predecessor, Goukouni Oueddei. Libya and France greeted with relief their anticipated departure from the costly stalemate. But the Chadians, mired in a seesaw 19-year-old civil war, were anything but jubilant. Stung by the French failure to consult them before the agreement and skeptical of the mercurial Libyan's change of heart, they viewed the accord as a French betrayal and a Libyan deception...
Fellow Robert G. Stone Jr. '45 says that when the Corporation faces an unfamiliar issue, its first response is to consult with as many people around the University as possible. "Very seldom we say unilaterally seven people can make the best decisions, because very often we have to seek advice from as many people as we can. We don't know all the answers," he says. This process was evident most recently when the University considered a proposal from Professor of Biochemistry Mark Ptashne to set up a profit-making genetic engineering company within the University. After extensive consultations inside...