Word: givings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Northeastern (3-0-1 Metro League) recorded two trys at the end of the first half, and added a penalty kick just after halftime to give it a 13-0 edge. To add to Harvard's problems, lock Will Rava was ejected for a high tackle early in the second half, leaving the Crimson (3-1 Metro, 5-3 overall) a player short on the field...
...Johnston figured that donors would give more cheerfully if they were sure the handouts would go to a good purpose. In a pilot program last March, she asked businesses to buy books of the $2.50 coupons to be distributed to street people instead of the customary coins. Initial results were so good the program became permanent. Soon the center will offer coupons in various denominations and book sizes. The brightest sign so far is that some panhandlers have begun asking for coupons instead of cash...
...Columbia Pictures when the Japanese were at it again. Last week Japan's largest communications ( concern, Fujisankei, paid $150 million to buy a 25% stake in Britain's hottest record company, Virgin Music Group. Fujisankei's holding is the biggest Japanese share in any British company. The deal will give Fujisankei, which owns the daily newspaper Sankei Shimbun and a music and video company called Pony Canyon, entree to the West. Says joint chairman Hiroaki Shikanai: "We want to dispatch our thoughts and our culture to the world...
Joshua B. Goldstine '90, a philosophy concentrator and resident of Adams House D-entry, was taken to the emergency room of Beth Israel Hospital in Boston. A nurse there said Goldstine was still conscious, but declined to give any more information...
Bush said, "I am not going to give carte blanche support to an operation, particularly when they don't ask for this support. And I have to reserve that right. I have at stake the lives ofAmerican kids and I am not going to easily thrustthem into a battle unless I feel comfortable withit and unless those general officers in whom Ihave total confidence feel comfortable...