Word: marathoning
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Among the grants the committee also approved this past year include $3000 to Cyclists Fighting Hunger, $2000 toward the Lamont Fellowship, $500 to the Currier House Dance Marathon, and $500 to a new children's theater group...
Income is generated from the interest on a new million dollar public service endowment. Public Service Program $18,110 Cambridge Youth Enrichment Program $10,000 CityStep $3515 Cyclists Fighting Hunger $3000 Office of Career Services/Lamont Fellowship $2000 Francis de Celle $1500 Currier House Dance Marathon $500 Centro Presente $500 Children's Theater $500 Suzuki Program $500 Money spent this year: $43,000 Funding held over until next year...
Times have changed. When Gorbachev concluded his marathon 5 1/2-hour keynote speech last week, he had proved beyond a doubt that he is a determined foe of social corruption and economic inefficiency. He demanded radical improvements in the feeble Soviet agricultural program and lashed out against the misuse of power by Soviet officials. He also etched an acid appraisal of the 18-year rule of the late Leonid Brezhnev, who presided over the 26th Congress in 1981. Back then, laughter from delegates would have been unthinkable...
More than 80 bopping undergraduates raked in $10,000 worth of pledges for Harvard and Neighborhood Development (HAND), said William E. Pittman '86, chairman of the dance marathon...
When the big lobbying guns line up on opposite sides of an issue, they tend to cancel each other out. Threatened with a takeover by Mobil Oil in 1981, Marathon Oil hired Tommy Boggs' firm to push a congressional bill that would block the merger. The firm managed to get the bill through the House by using a little-known procedural rule at a late-night session. In the Senate, however, Mobil--represented by former Carter Aide Stuart Eizenstat--was able to stop the bill when Senator Howell Heflin of Alabama blocked consideration on the Senate floor. Heflin...