Search Details

Word: letter (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...letter to the Undergraduate Committee on Harvard Shareholder Responsibility (UCHSR), which selects the college's ACSR member and is sponsoring the proposed ACSR reforms, Bok approved the selection of graduate school faculty and student ACSR members by a fixed system of rotation of the graduate schools from which they are drawn. He also deferred two procedural reforms of the ACSR to the judgement of the advisory committee...

Author: By James L. Tyson, | Title: Bok Opposes Two Reforms Designed to Alter ACSR | 3/9/1979 | See Source »

Harvard Republican Club member Nancy Achin, who wrote a letter to Nixon asking him to refuse an invitation from the club to speak at Harvard, said yesterday, "I can't imagine them really meaning it. Nixon did give quite a contribution to journalism, though--he gave the press something to write about...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Students Protest Award for Nixon At Bates College | 3/8/1979 | See Source »

Having just finished reading your feature story of March 2, "Disobedience a la Thoreau: The Case of Gus Yates," my sense of outrage has prompted me to write this letter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Selfishness | 3/6/1979 | See Source »

Barnet followed his own rules to the letter. He arrived early every morning -not to get any work done, but to peruse the desks of everyone else in the office, thus keeping one step ahead of his superiors. He would gleefully fill me in on his findings the moment I arrived, the first wave in a day-long deluge of chatter that made it impossible for either of us to get any work done. My life became a mind-numbing swamp of monologues about who got what promotion, why it was undeserved, which employees hated each other and why. "That...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Making of A Bureaucrat | 3/5/1979 | See Source »

...electronically turn on the lights and air conditioner a few minutes before he arrives at work, and lock the office door when he leaves at day's end. Electronic word-processing machines may be hooked onto the phone system, Himsworth figures, allowing an employee to punch out a letter at his desk and have it automatically transmitted to one or 1,000 receiving devices attached to phones throughout the system. IBM, the world's largest producer of electric typewriters for offices, already makes and markets a PBX system in Europe, and rumors are swirling around Wall Street that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Phonomania and Future Talk | 3/5/1979 | See Source »

Previous | 60 | 61 | 62 | 63 | 64 | 65 | 66 | 67 | 68 | 69 | 70 | 71 | 72 | 73 | 74 | 75 | 76 | 77 | 78 | 79 | 80 | Next