Word: levying
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...contribution of $7 million, Levi Strauss gets to create the official outfit of the class of '86. Gone are black gowns and mortarboards. In their place: for the guys, boot-cut denims, snap-button Western shirts with solid-color yokes and Stetson hats; for the gals, knee-length gingham skirts, Lady Fryes and matching blouses and bandannas. Members of the Harvard Corporation and other honored guests on the dais wear full-length cowhide chaps...
...hated it when we started it, because it is so hard to sing. It jumps around a lot. However, it is a really beautiful, intellectual piece," said Deborah L. Levi '89, another Collegium member...
...pepper this psycho-sexual stew with a generous dose of True West mythos (lassos, gunracks, motel notells), an ensemble cast as good as they get, honkytonk lovesongs and sets designed by Levi-Strauss, and you've got yourself a bowl of three-alarm movie-making...
...raids, denounces them "as financial transactions for the profit of the takeover entrepreneurs." He adds sharply, "They do not create jobs. They do not add to the national wealth. They merely rearrange ownership interests and shift risk from shareholders to creditors." Concurs Peter Jones, retired senior vice president of Levi Strauss and now an instructor at the University of California, Berkeley: "While we in America devote a major part of our material and human resources to promoting and fighting mergers and hostile takeovers, we are becoming less and less competitive with Japan and all the new Japans...
Part Two, "Understanding the Meaning of Signs" is a retrospective glance at semiotics' coming-to-consciousness. One has Jakobson's ode "Dear Claude, Cher Maitre," addressed to the father of structuralism, Levi-Strauss, and Jacques Derrida's "To Speculate-On 'Freud,"' acknowledging semiotics's intertextual as well as interdisciplinary legacy...