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...million and sweetened the deal with 500,000 Snickers bars and 500,000 bags of M & Ms candies. Levi Strauss will put clothes on all 700 U.S. athletes and coaches plus some 40,000 staffers at the Games, from Ueberroth down to the parking-lot attendants. IBM has lent 200 of its Personal Computers and 190 word processors, among other gear...
Meanwhile, the members of the Black Faculty and Administrators struggle to reconcile their minority concerns with their positions as employees of the University. Thus far, this "inside" position has lent a more moderate tone to the group's demands. But if Black hiring does not rise in coming months, their demands may acquire a harsher note...
Harvard faculty members have traditionally lent their support to political candidates in a variety of ways. some have put their reputations behind a particular candidate through public endorsements, while others have used their expertise to help politicians by serving as advisors on specific issues. Still others have become active participants in a candidate's campaign organization. Ultimately a faculty member may find his support of a candidate leading him through the "revolving door" between government and academia...
Kistiakowsky worked actively for Hart when he was in Boston; she even lent furniture to the Hart for President headquarters. She plans to continue to be active. "I'm going as a delegate to the state convention in June, and I've toyed with the idea of becoming a Hart delegate [to the Democratic National Convention]. I will do everything I can to elect as many good Hart supporters to go to the national convention as I can," she promises...
Commercial banks at first lent freely to those countries on the basis of their economic promise, granting them liberal payback terms. But by 1982 the banks were sharply curtailing Third World lending. By then it was clear that those countries had difficulties even paying interest on their loans. Not only were they already deeply in debt, but their economies were slowing down because of recession in the industrialized nations. Oil-rich developing countries were also strapped for cash as oil prices dropped...