Word: joining
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...James F. Conlan Jr. was a localmusician of enough repute for the Harvard Band toask him to join it during the 300th birthdaycelebration. Fifty years later, still a musicianof repute, though now living in the the Lone StarState, Conlan will once again toot his horn whileHarvard toots...
...Peter L. Malkin '55 and Sen. Lowell M. Weicker (R-Conn.), got around the restriction by securing Harvard the man, not Harvard the college, the 33rd slot in the Great Americanstamp series. As such, the teaching elder whobequeathed his library and 800 English pounds tothe first American college will join the likes ofthe late Supreme Court Justice Hugo L. Black,attorney William Jennings Bryan, poet T.S. Eliot'04, jazz great Duke Ellington, and writer JackLondon on the top right corner of America'senvelopes...
...packaged-food companies went on a buying binge, gobbling up disparate lines of business that ranged from luggage to toys to women's clothing. Now many are discovering that their eyes were bigger than their stomach, and they are getting back to basic areas of expertise. The latest to join the trend is Chicago's Quaker Oats, the breakfast giant. It will shed its nonfood division, the Specialty Retailing Group, which accounts for 6% of the company's $3.67 billion in sales. Acting on the same impulse, Northbrook, Ill.-based Dart & Kraft (1985 sales: $9.9 billion) had previously announced that...
...most ambitious effort was a magisterial 18-page section in the New York Times Magazine earlier this year that portrayed a large, wealthy and blue-blooded American clan enjoying a life of racquets, books and, yes, polo. The pictorial saga reached out to upwardly mobile consumers with "Come join us" rather than "Hey, you! Buy these pants!" In essence, the Lauren approach dangles old-money prestige in front of a new-money clientele...
...past decade has spawned scores of organizations seeking to join veteran institutions such as Brookings and the American Enterprise Institute in influencing the national debate with studies, reports and seminars. Herewith some of the newer players, as well as a few of their predecessors...