Word: groups
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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What's more, a Wesleyan student last week filed similar charges against a group of schools, including Harvard. If he turns his case into a class action suit and wins, many students could be awarded damages for being overcharged. That could mean millions of dollars in your pockets and in mine...
Obviously, this company will be scrutinized by the government, which must decide if information-sharing by a select group of schools violates the principles of a free market. But what is especially troubling is how the University acted toward this firm...
...salvage operation is financed by a group of Ohio investors who put up $7 million. Aboard the recovery ship Arctic Discover is a team of scientists studying the ecosystem around the sunken steamer. But Thompson concedes that new knowledge is merely a fringe benefit. Says he: "Without the gold, we would not be here...
Most of those accomplishments date from the show's first five seasons -- also known as the Golden Age. A young producer named Lorne Michaels had assembled a talented group of writers and performers from such cutting-edge venues as the Second City satirical troupe and National Lampoon magazine. Chevy Chase was the show's first star and formative influence, but the group effort soon produced a cornucopia of cultural reference points for the '70s: Roseanne Roseannadanna, the Coneheads, the Nerds, Belushi's Samurai warrior, Dan Aykroyd's Tom Snyder...
...self? For one thing, the most popular bits -- Carvey's Church Lady, the body-building brothers Hans and Franz -- are the weakest parts of the show, crowd pleasers that depend on makeup gimmicks rather than nimble gags. Too many sketches are pat and obvious in ways that the old group wouldn't have tolerated (a team of ad executives, marooned on an island, worries more about meetings and market surveys than about building a raft to escape). The live production, meanwhile, is more polished but lacks the old gleam. The actors now get extensively made up for their impressions (Chevy...