Word: granted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Mangelsdorf and two of his colleagues received a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation to study the food needs in Mexico...
...actually got a grant to hang out on the beaches of Jamaica and participate in the local culture...
...article in Tuesday's Crimson mistakenly quoted Kennedy School spokesperson Steven R. Singer as saying that the school had a specific individual in mind for the newly endowed Graham T. Allison chair. Singer actually was referring to a yet-unfilled chair endowed by a grant from Malcolm Weiner '57 announced earlier this summer...
...judge did grant Paramount's motion for a ten-day stay of the Time-Warner merger while Paramount appeals to the Delaware Supreme Court, which agreed to consider briefs throughout this week and hear the final arguments in the case ! on July 24. The appeal prevented Time from purchasing 100 million of Warner's nearly 200 million shares in a $70-per-share tender that had been scheduled to expire this week. Time would acquire the remaining Warner shares later for cash and securities...
Howe brought a blunt and unwelcome message: "There is simply no way a British government could grant to several million people the right to come and live in Britain." Instead, while planning to admit perhaps 100,000 Hong Kong Chinese, London offered to enlist the U.S., Canada and Australia in a last- resort "lifeboat" plan to absorb others in the event of a mass exodus. In the meantime, Britain would hasten the implementation of self-rule and press Beijing for fresh assurances that Chinese troops would stay out of Hong Kong. The colony's Chinese were not appeased. Storming...