Word: joining
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Ruth Sager, Med School professor of Cellular Genetics, said getting such an important award "will help us recruit highly talented individuals to join our laboratory...
Senator Jesse Helms was too straitlaced. Ted Turner was too brash and boisterous. But dapper Laurence Tisch was just the kind of dance partner CBS wanted. The entertainment company announced last week that it had invited Tisch, 62, the billionaire chairman of Loews, to join the CBS board of directors. In addition, Loews, a New York-based conglomerate that owns a hotel chain, sells insurance and manufactures Kent cigarettes and Bulova watches, will increase its stake in CBS from 11.7% of the network's stock to as much as 25%. CBS was emphatic that the deal with Tisch was entirely...
...itself is largely to blame for the unrealistic expectations that greeted the birth of the U.N. during the last days of World War II. Ashamed that Washington's refusal to join the League of Nations after World War I had doomed that earlier bid for collective security, American leaders lavished praise on the new global body. The U.N. Charter "can be a greater Magna Carta," intoned John Foster Dulles, a delegate to the San Francisco conference...
...sight-seeing and shopping in Cairo, Marilyn and her husband Leon, 69, stayed aboard. A retired appliance manufacturer, Leon had been confined to a wheelchair after suffering two strokes during the past three years. Another member of the group, Mildred Hodes, of Springfield, N.J., had planned to join her husband Frank on the Cairo trip, but at the last moment she changed her mind. That decision very nearly cost Mildred Hodes her life...
...flaw. Writers such as James Baldwin and Richard Wright have warned that anti-Semitic feelings run deep in black communities, where Jewish shopkeepers and landlords were the only whites within reach and thus came to represent white oppression generally. Being anti-Semitic often seemed a way for blacks to join forces with the white Christian majority, to gain acceptability by turning on another minority...