Word: meeting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After the regulations were changed to require that entertainment be "directly related" to business activity, the national tax practice director for Touche Ross advised executives that "it may be necessary to schedule significant business meetings before or after [an event] to meet these requirements...
...first time since 1982. Amid persistent auto-industry speculation that Chrysler might be forced to merge with a foreign partner, here was Chairman Lee Iacocca declaring that for the company to survive, it must cut at least $1 billion, or $500 a car, from its overhead. To help meet that goal, the company will lay off 6,300 employees in the coming months...
...Governor's political pain has been no less acute. After years of phenomenal double-digit growth, the Massachusetts economy had at last slowed down. In June, Dukakis was forced to raise temporarily state income taxes by 15% to meet $700 million in last year's unpaid bills. Last week, scarcely four months into the current budget, the deficit had already soared to $730 million, far more than anyone imagined possible. As revenues sagged with no matching reductions in the state's ambitious outlays, deficits rose and credit , ratings withered. The financial ranking of once proud Massachusetts dropped to 49th among...
...audience to think about the differences between their lives and her life: differences in culture, language, geographic location, social status, education. As is customary in this class, he asked for reflection on differences, not similarities; he asked his audience to create a distance between themselves and the people they meet in the readings. He doesn't seem to expect the students to emphathize with the characters...
When Dean Epps gave ROTC permission to meet in Harvard Hall last week, he violated two significant pieces of Faculty legislation...