Word: controllable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard contended that it did not have any control over the decision of KKR to take over RJR and claimed that it could not back out of the deal. The Commonwealth of Massachussetts pension fund, which had also originally committed funds to KKR's limited partnership, pulled out because it did not approve of the hostile takeover process or RJR's connections to South Africa. Harvard's administrators, however, saw nothing wrong with donating University resources to this scheme...
...many years, the left has let the right control the nation's political agenda. Seeing difficulties in employer-employee relations as a symptom of larger structural problems rather than just a dispute at one company makes it simpler for the left to redefine the agenda in terms of economic justice...
Loss of Creative Control...
...first, some studios were wary of including the lines of dialogue. Former chair of NBC Grant A. Tinker, who introduced Winsten to writers and producers, says, "Some took it as though we were slipping some message about Communism...Some creative people took umbrage because of loss of creative control. That's bullshit. Jay has a very reasonable approach. You know he is not selling Communism...
...important question for Gorbachev is whether he can retain control in the Soviet Union. While the Soviets claim Gorbachev rushed home early from the United States last week because of the destructive Armenian earthquake which claimed more than 60,000 lives, experts on the Soviet Union openly question whether he did so because of negative reactions from the Soviet military. Soviet armed forces chief of staff Sergie Akhormeyev, who opposed Gorbachev in this latest unilateral move, resigned the same day Gorbachev gave his U.N. speech...