Word: less
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...informal transitional meetings were designed to give the administration an idea of what its like to work as a clerical or technical employee at Harvard and to pave the way to less confrontational relations in the future. Yet, how can tensions be eased and workers' lives fairly depicted, when only a portion of the workers choose their representatives...
Junior C.J. Young slipped in a Lane MacDonald deflection less than four minutes later and MacDonald blasted a power-play goal off the pipes 53 seconds into the third period to give Harvard its first lead...
...Once again, we've encountered a team that has different goals than we do," Harvard Co-Captain Keith Kaplan said. "Army made their season by winning in a meet that was less important to us than others down the road, like Princeton and Easterns. It's frustrating to lose like that, but we have to keep the goals of the season in mind. There are a full two-and-one-half months until Easterns and we expect to win there...
...stunning rebuff to Johnson, the board awarded the food-and-tobacco giant to Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, the leveraged-buyout specialists. Underdog KKR won even though the firm's final bid of about $25 billion in cash and securities, or $109 a share, was a bit less than the $25.4 billion, or $112 a share, that Johnson and his handful of top RJR managers had offered as their last stab. (The largest previous deal was Chevron's $13.3 billion takeover of Gulf in 1984.) "It was destined to happen this way," said a source close to the bidding. "The board could...
Mitchell, one of the Capitol's most adroit phrasemakers, may prove more than a match for Bush in articulating his party's agenda. The next President will find the new majority leader less interested than his predecessor, West Virginia's Robert Byrd, in parliamentary procedures, more skillful in forming coalitions, and equally unwilling to let Congress play a fall-guy role if the President tries to extricate himself from his "read my lips" campaign promises not to raise taxes. Says his friend and mentor Edmund Muskie: "George is a liberal but one who can win the support of many people...