Word: gulf
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mistaken for a movie mogul. He is a soft-spoken man who clearly lacks the bravura of his former boss, producer Samuel Goldwyn, for whom Davis once worked as an office boy and press agent. But Davis is a man in a hurry. He leapfrogged to the top of Gulf & Western over two more senior executives after the death of conglomerateur Charles Bluhdorn. It took Davis just six years to transform Gulf & Western from an unwieldy, 1960s-style pastiche of unrelated companies into the more focused media giant that he renamed Paramount Communications the day before he launched...
...President Derek C. Bok, explaining a May decision to let the Faculty acquire the Gulf station property for several million dollars...
...least one of its properties this year, the University has found itself unable to pass Go. Plans to build a five-story hotel on the Gulf station site across the street from the Harvard Union have been up in the air since December, when members of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) demanded that Harvard Real Estate (HRE)--the manager of Harvard's non-academic properties--reconsider the project...
Although FAS last month reached an "understanding" with Harvard's central administration that it would eventually be allowed to develop the Gulf site for academic use, the Faculty has yet to come up with a concrete proposal...
...time may have run out for the University. On Monday night, the City Council approved a change in the site's zoning which drastically curbs Harvard's ability to develop it. Harvard is threatening to sue the city, claiming that the new zoning unfairly focuses on the Gulf land...