Word: counciler
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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...
...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...
...said he is considering performances by reggae artist Ziggy Marley and local folk singer Tracy Chapman, said the committee cannot respond to concert offers quickly enough if the council has to approve every step in the negotiations...
...Winter sets in and Ken Lee disease seems to set in," Battat said in an interview after the meeting, referring to former council Chair Kenneth E. Lee '89, who negotiated the Vega appearance...