Word: guests
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Four of the featured events--two luncheons, a tea, and a dinner, all with distinguished guests of honor--are by invitation only. For example, a luncheon to honor writing at Harvard, an event that might interest a wide audience of students, has been closed to all but 60. The coordinators in University Hall have already drafted the guest lists. The bulk of the invitations will soon land in the mailboxes of students who hold positions of perceived power or prestige in campus organizations. In demographic terms, your 17 percent chance of gaining admission to Harvard was more than double...
...tried to get as many undergraduates tothe events as possible," said Anita Ramasastry'88, a member of the 11-member steering committeewho has helped draw up the guest lists...
...concern that this complicated legislative contraption could dampen business investment and make the rules of the tax game even more uncertain for many corporations and households. In the end, the panel was almost unanimous in predicting that the new law would soon be followed by more legislative tinkering. Concluded Guest Economist Henry Aaron, a tax specialist at Washington's Brookings Institution: "Though not a landmark shift, the tax reform will make the personal and corporation income taxes significantly fairer...
...brightened considerably as an old Wallace friend telephoned over the news. There is little love lost for Wyman in CBS journalism circles, where the ex-chairman's decisions have been a target for strident criticism. Partygoers vied to congratulate a late arrival at the celebration: Laurence Tisch. Exulted one guest: "CBS has returned to its origins." Said 60 Minutes Correspondent Morley Safer: "It's back to the future. That's good news...
When she turned 50 two years ago, it was clear that time had passed by neither Gloria Steinem nor her causes. A co-founder and editor of Ms. magazine, she is still going strong on every front. All this week she will be sitting in as a guest host on the Today show, and she has a new book being published in November on Marilyn Monroe. The screen sex goddess, says Steinem, was "one person on the outside and totally another on the inside. I think there needed to be a book about Norma Jean, what made her like...