Word: establishments
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...goal of the recommendations is to establish minimum criteria that all schools that sign this agreement will try to achieve," said Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III, who represented Harvard at the group's meetings along with Coordinator of Student Activities Susan T. Cooke...
...midterm election result for Republicans was Texas Governor George Bush's big win [ELECTION REPORT, Nov. 16]. His social moderation and outreach to minorities, if only embraced by a stunned G.O.P. now wedded to the religious right, could lead to the big prize in Y2K. His election would then establish Clinton's place in history: a tainted twig between two Bushes. FRANCIS S. ANDREWS Lincoln, Mass...
Investors eager to ride this trend often turn to Amazon after starting out as satisfied online buyers of its books--and now of its music CDs, videos and gifts. The company has spent heavily to establish a brand name and reputation from scratch, with no brick-and-mortar stores to springboard its efforts. "Brand name is critically important to retailing, and Amazon paid dearly for it," notes Marie LaTour Kadison, senior analyst at Forrester. "They knew it was imperative [to establish a brand identity] before companies like Barnes & Noble and Borders came online...
...Quayle would have loved Louis B. Mayer, a man for whom the words family values had real meaning. Motherhood, the Stars and Stripes and God were equal parts of a lifelong strategy that would establish Metro Goldwyn Mayer as the industry's dominant film factory, from the silent era through the talkies revolution. While the other early moguls were simply trying to make the best movies they could, young Mayer was an ideologue intent on using the power of the new medium to exert what he considered the proper moral influence on the American public...
Long before medical costs became a national issue, Reuther was advocating universal health care. He organized the Committee of One Hundred to put the issue on the national agenda and set the stage for congressional action. At the same time, he helped establish one of the early HMOs, an association that eventually became the Health Alliance Plan, a major health-care provider in the metropolitan Detroit area. Whether testifying before Congress or elsewhere, Reuther threw his weight behind the public issues of the day. He called for a Citizens Crusade Against Poverty, federal aid to housing and education, the peaceful...