Word: joining
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...promotion at WLS-TV in Chicago. He impressed his boss, Lewis Erlicht (now president of ABC Entertainment), with successful gimmicks like "Gorilla My Dreams Week," a festival of ape movies. Fred Silverman, then ABC'S programming chief, soon hired him, but Tartikoff left after a year to join NBC. Silverman later became president of NBC and promoted Tartikoff to the top programming slot in January...
...apparently been pressuring Yale to stand firm for the good of all, in the good old Ivy tradition. Harvard and Columbia have union organizing drives on their own campuses, and a victory for Yale's employees might encourage secretarial and technical support staff here and in New York to join or vote for a union. Because Harvard and Columbia would lose money if their workers won the right to bargain collectively. Yale must crush its own union's fight for comparable worth...
Clark is just one member of what the coach considers the best freshman group he has fielded in his 15 years at the helm of the Crimson--and the Yardlings join 11 returning lettermen from fast year's 11-8 (3-3 Ivy) squad...
...Were the Final Clubs central to life at Harvard, one could see reason, possibly compelling, for insisting they practice fairness, equity, democracy, non-discrimination, etcetera. But, nowadays, the Clubs need be central to no one's life; it is doubtful they're central to the lives of most who join them. Why, then, is it skin off anyone's nose if they are exclusive, discriminatory, aristocratic, or male chauvinist? Why not live and let live...
...want to end up going out to eat on the night of the Fast, come to the Hunger Banquet; If ou don't like Oxfam's relief efforts, give your money to H.E.L.P.; If you want to earn $500,000 for Oxfam, join the Ride for Life; If you want to learn about development, go to a discussion sponsored by H.H.A.C. or H.R.I.D.F.; If you want to physically give food to the homeless, show up at PBH and join the Food Salvage program; If you can't or won't do any of that, do something else...