Word: dollar
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...clever propaganda campaign. With pressing decisions to be made regarding national energy policy. Americans can little afford to be duped and mesmerized by Madison Avenue con men. Trusting your car to the man who wears the star is one thing; trusting an oil company with a multi-million dollar public relations budget is quite another...
...area class agents may make Barry Gold-water look like George McGovern but they still devote a great deal of time each year to the Harvard College Fund; the University itself pays 13 cents for each dollar the Fund raises and last year contributions exceeded $6 million. The Fund has now recovered from its troublesome years earlier this decade when out of desperation the Fund chairman offered free copies of Love Story as an incentive to large donors. The Faculty relies heavily on the Fund for income, particularly unrestricted income that can be used to pay for financial...
...this dollar estimate is correct. Harvard is setting a steep task for itself. The University receives more contributions than any other school in the country but if administrators wish to reach $225 million they will have to raise $75 million a year, $16 million more than they are presently earning...
...became her manager. He showered her with clusters of jewelry for each new role she sang. But at the Metropolitan Opera, he insisted on receiving her salary in cash before each night's performance. This so enraged Met General Manager Rudolf Bing that he paid in five-dollar bills, "to make a wad uncomfortably large for him to carry...
...entrance a grand spectacular of longlegged women dancing about him with fluttering pink plummage, Flynn virtually has the stage to himself whenever he speaks or touches his cigarette holder to his million-dollar mouth. Cocky and always in control, he boasts that "If Jesus Christ had been in Chicago and had had 5000 bucks, things would have turned out a lot different...