Word: distorts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...City businessmen, to meet and brain-storm about possible sources of Big Bucks. William S. Olney '46, director of corporations and foundations in the development office, says this conclave of presidents, board chairmen, and directors tries to woo potential munificent givers by convincing them that by helping Harvard (to distort the old saying), they'll be helping themselves: "Say they approach a major chemical company and ask them to contribute to some new chem labs; they would try to demonstrate that if the Chem Department suddenly disappeared from the face of the earth, the world would be a very poor...
...City businessmen, to meet and brain-storm about possible sources of Big Bucks. William S. Olney '46, director of corporations and foundations in the development office, says this conclave of presidents, board chairmen, and directors tries to woo potential munificent givers by convincing them that by helping Harvard (to distort the old saying), they'll be helping themselves: "Say they approach a major chemical company and ask them to contribute to some new chem labs; they would try to demonstrate that if the Chem Department suddenly disappeared from the face of the earth, the world would be a very poor...
...City businessmen, to meet and brain-storm about possible sources of Big Bucks. William S. Olney '46, director of corporations and foundations in the development office, says this conclave of presidents, board chairmen, and directors tries to woo potential munificent givers by convincing them that by helping Harvard (to distort the old saying), they'll be helping themselves: "Say they approach a major chemical company and ask them to contribute to some new chem labs; they would try to demonstrate that if the Chem Department suddenly disappeared from the face of the earth, the world would be a very poor...
...statement, which was entitled "Our Way Is Not Theirs," attacked "extremists in the [Israeli] public and within the government guided by secular and religious chauvinism [who] distort Zionism and threaten its realization. They advance the vicious cycle of extremism and violence which nurture each other." It also appeared to be critical of Begin's insistence on establishing Israeli settlements in the Arab West Bank, a policy that some American Jews believe is a serious obstacle to peace in the Middle East...
Organizations. Previously endorsed by 250 influential Israelis, the statement criticized "extremists" within the Israeli government who "distort Zionism and threaten its realization." Implicitly opposing the Begin policy of building more Jewish settlements in the West Bank, the statement also condemned those who "advance the vicious cycle of extremism and violence" and concluded that "their way endangers and isolates Israel." The statement, in the view of Brandeis University Professor Leonard Fein, was "a vote of no confidence in the present Israeli government by a significant segment of the American Jewish leadership...