Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...attraction of having the proof in writing. In the greatest reversal since Serutan, DiMaggio brought a baseball to a White House dinner last year, when Mikhail Gorbachev was visiting President Reagan, and acquired their autographs for free. "Reagan's is very precise," says DiMaggio, who once had to fight a souvenir collector at his bank to retrieve a check made out by Joe and endorsed by his then wife Marilyn Monroe. "Gorbachev signed it the way a doctor writes a prescription. In my whole life, that's the only time I ever asked anybody to sign a ball...
...pumping out pamphlets excoriating the bosses. Strike leaders with beepers, walkie-talkies and cellular telephones were blasting orders, tuning in scanners to chart the movements of the state police and faxing messages to union headquarters in Washington. And get this, John L.: the union actually launched a stockholders' proxy fight and succeeded in pressuring its employer to issue its first dividend since...
...manage. Fast- growing and profitable Saatchi & Saatchi stunned Wall Street two months ago with the news that for 1989 its earnings will decline for the first time in 19 years. Sorrell insists that he will encounter no such obstacles. But first he will have to win the fight for Ogilvy, which is likely to seek higher bidders. Among Sorrell's possible rivals for Ogilvy: Japan's Dentsu and the U.S. firms Interpublic and Young & Rubicam. Sorrell may not be the only ad mogul who still thinks that bigger is better...
...letters and efforts coming from both sides of this fight, Kennedy received the added advantage of help from Glimp, his long-time friend. After Kennedy wrote the letter, Glimp put him in touch with Charles J. Egan '54, and alumnus who has been active in fighting HRAAA. Egan then paid more than $9500 to publish Kennedy's letter as an advertisment in Harvard Magazine...
THIS mistrust is not ill-placed, as past U.S. intervention indicates. Nicaragua is attacked presumably for its socialist ideology of land expropriation; Cuba, for its willingness to fight foreign wars; Peru, for its refusal to strangle itself through debt payments. North American imperialist attitudes of the last two decades have shifted to the ideological and economic level...