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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...business groups, Tsongas said, must develop "a reasonable social contract with government...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Former Senator Tsongas Says He Will Not Run for Governor | 11/21/1989 | See Source »

...deadpanned nonstop alliterations into the phone as he promoted an employee ("I'm putting you in charge of Pittsburgh, Peter!") and closed a contract ("Dick, what's the deal with the deal?"). The 1982 Federal Express commercial featuring the fast-talking Mr. Spleen struck a chord in frantic managers everywhere. Last week it was rated the best ad of the 1980s in a Top Ten list compiled by the One Club, an industry group...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Advertising: One-Liners and Broken Taboos | 11/20/1989 | See Source »

...economic linchpin of the proposed plan is the renegotiation of the University's waste disposal contract scheduled for next summer. Currently, Harvard pays a flat fee for waste disposal that at present levels of waste production averages out to $100 per ton. Thus, there is no incentive to hold down the amount of garbage that Harvard produces...

Author: By Steven J. S. glick, | Title: C'mon, Change the Sheets | 11/14/1989 | See Source »

...part, the University should press for an earlier renegotiation of the garbage contract, and be prepared to act as a broker between recycling companies and the 12 financially independent graduate schools who will have to make up their own minds about implementing a recycling system...

Author: By Steven J. S. glick, | Title: C'mon, Change the Sheets | 11/14/1989 | See Source »

After the garbage contract is renegotiated, recycling will offer a rare opportunity to marry social consciousness to financial self-interest. And if the prospect of financial gain and the satisfaction of being environmentally sensitive do not galvanize Harvard behind a long-term committment to recycling, then the University's role as educator should...

Author: By Steven J. S. glick, | Title: C'mon, Change the Sheets | 11/14/1989 | See Source »

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