Word: joining
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There are rumors that many of the top elevator executives are Russian defectors. They say it's just a coincidence. Ha! Do they think we can be duped so easily? Americans must defend themselves. Join me in returning to the good old days of marble staircases and horizontal sky-scrapers. We must find alternate technologies before it is too late--please donate money to the Harvard Scientist Research Committee where they are currently developing a complicated see-saw apparatus on which yuppies can stand and bound pleasantly to their jobs when that fat lady is pushed out onto the other...
...trail or decide what role John Sears, a respected Republican political pro detested by the extreme right, will play in his campaign. In January, after Dole had been quoted as saying he had discussed with his wife Elizabeth the possibility that she would quit her job and join his campaign, she confronted him: "How can you say that," she asked, "when you haven't even decided if you are going to run?" She happens to be Ronald Reagan's Secretary of Transportation, and some political observers suspect that if either member of this power couple becomes President...
...London, Jeffrey learns of an emergency in his medical practice and decides to return to San Francisco. He urges Chloe to go on ahead without him; Sara and Max, their two small children, will be fine with the plans already made for their care back home, and Jeffrey will join her in Iran as soon as he can. Chloe agrees reluctantly but with a little thrill as well. She knows that another American visitor scheduled to appear in Shiraz is Dr. Hugh Monroe, with whom she has tentatively begun a love affair...
...Dart Group's offer to acquire Supermarkets General for $1.6 billion would join two retailers. Dart owns discount auto-parts stores and book outlets, while Supermarkets General specializes in food and drugs. Some analysts suspect that the Haft family, which controls the Dart Group, would be perfectly content to stop short of an actual merger and sell its current shares in Supermarkets General at a profit...
...calls for select groups of students to join Harvard's full professors, leading experts from outside, and the University's president in discussing the professional attainments of scholars bidding for tenure. Unfortunately for the plan's future, however, Harvard faculty members are quite confident of their fitness to direct the development of their own academic fields and jealously guard appointments even against leading colleagues elsewhere when they take an interest in Harvard appointments. And if outside experts aren't often welcomed, how can the council seriously suggest that undergraduates be invited to take part? The plan's greatest effect likely...