Word: drafting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After Perella and Wasserstein finally decided to bail out last week, they met Monday night at the office of their law firm, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, where attorneys helped them draft a charter for their new company. The next morning the two went to First Boston and wrote their resignations. "This is a decision not reached easily," read Perella's handwritten note. Says Wasserstein: "I was flattered to be well paid, but I disagreed with the firm's management on fundamentals." The departing stars made an 11 a.m. appointment with Buchanan in his 43rd-floor Manhattan office, where they cordially...
...request came in response to a well-publicized scandal at the Kennedy School, when Dean Graham T. Allison '62 approved a draft agreement that would have granted "officer of the University" status to a Texas couple in exchange for a $500,000 donation. In 1985, the same couple were made lecturers in psychology months after they gave $150,000 to the Erik Erikson Center, an interdisciplinary research center that is part of Harvard-affiliated Cambridge Hospital...
Take Harvard, for example. Byerly Hall would not be so foolhardy as to draft a secret memorandum setting ceilings on minority admissions, even if such limits were desirable. For a university which claims to educate the best of America's young with the world's most enlightened ideals to turn round and declare it denies opportunity to fully qualified individuals simply because of their race would be outrageously hypocritical. In fact, the admissions office's January 22 statement on Asian-American policy cited a 1978 Supreme Court opinion lauding Harvard as an "illuminating model" for minority admissions...
...weeks," said Bill Cahill, a Bush staffer in New Hampshire. At a campaign stop in South Dakota, Bush found dozens of his listeners wearing lapel buttons with a diagonal slash across "Dan Rather." At Bush's national headquarters, an aide scurried through the lobby with a long memo draft titled "Reaping the Benefits of the Rather Interview...
...compensate for the tighter deadlines, thedeans waived penalty fees for dropping and addingcourses during the second week of classes andrequired professors to have syllabi available byregistration day. Council member Thomas D. Warren'88 said he had objected to an earlier draft ofthe plan that did not contain these provisions...