Word: letters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...shape the College's agenda for the next few years. At that time, officials said they would hold an open forum to discuss the survey once the findings were tabulated. "The results will be made available in a public forum late in the spring," wrote Bok in a cover letter to the questionnaire...
...Nabisco offices a few blocks away, Johnson was furious when he learned that the board was ready to sell the company to KKR. His legal advisers swiftly drafted a letter to RJR chairman Charles Hugel, who heads the board but holds no managerial post in the company, declaring they were "astounded" that the directors "would go off into the middle of the night to negotiate." Hugel explained that the KKR bid simply was much higher. By 2 a.m., however, Johnson's advisers persuaded him that his chances were still alive. Armed with a new bid for $108 a share, Johnson...
...week's end Johnson and Kravis sent a letter to RJR Nabisco's 125,000 employees to announce the end of their struggle. "It is now most important," the letter stated, "that we return immediately and actively to running our business." For Johnson, that business will probably mean finding another...
...want of a letter m, David Burling, 19, is a free man. On trial in Hastings, Neb., last week for possession of with the intent to deliver 49 capsules of the psychoactive drug Ecstasy, Burling was acquitted on largely lexicological grounds. The state legislature misspelled the drug's chemical name when it passed the bill that outlawed it in 1986. Thus Burling could not be convicted of possessing the substance specified by the lawmakers. The correct spelling is methylenedioxymethamphetamine, not ) methylenedioxyethamphetamine as the law had it. Next time they ban a drug in Nebraska, they'd better consult a pharmacological...
...would listen that his tower is much more than a building; it "has become the biggest attraction in New York City." He wants Gorbachev to see the "whole concept of Trump Tower," which features standard Trump touches like imported breccia perniche marble, a cascading waterfall, bronze plaques with the letter T emblazoned on every surface where the name Trump is not, and celebrity residents paying some of the highest prices in Manhattan. After walking through the atrium lobby, decorated with an oversize poster of Trump's book, Gorbachev is scheduled to get a tour of Trump's 26th-floor office...