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...widely should a group publicize its meetings and how far in advance? Who should cover the costs of publicity or procuring a larger auditorium? Should members at least be entitled to preferred seating? Such questions may not be impossible to answer, but they indicate the type of regulatory morass that the University would enter if it undertook to fix detailed rules to govern exactly how each student group conduct its meetings...
Those qualities have helped Gregorian prevail over what once seemed a nearly hopeless financial morass. When he arrived, the library was balancing its budget not only by cutting back services but by eating into its $80 million endowment. Then Gregorian began stating his case to potential givers. It was both blunt and plain: the library is necessary and therefore it should be supported. "I have never relied on the guilt or vanity of donors," explains Gregorian. "Charity you give out of pity. Philanthropy is for a higher cause...
Probably not, but Schell, like every other person who is looking for ways out of the nuclear morass, is torn by the conflicting pulls of realism and idealism. While interpreting much of the nuclear debate to this point as a debate between the two approaches to problem solving. Schell does not show his own stripes as he did (to little effect) in Fate of the Earth. One part of Schell Model '84 is saying blast nationalism and provincialism and advocate a King Solomon of a world government that will solve everything; the other is looking for solutions within the traditional...
...suppliers of computer services. Founded in 1962 by Chairman H. Ross Perot, EDS (1983 sales: $629.7 million) provides data processing for such customers as the U.S. Army and the state of Tennessee's Medicaid program. GM already has the first task for EDS: streamlining the automaker's morass of accounting, payroll and scheduling records. Said GM Chairman Roger Smith: "We have to get to the point where every time a dealer sells a Cadillac, then Firestone or Goodyear automatically will send another set of tires right on over to one of our plants." By providing EDS with billions...
...parent company of NBC, dropped $17 million on the Entertainment Channel before closing it last year. ABC and its partner, Westinghouse, gave up on their Satellite News venture last October, selling out to Turner Broadcasting System for $25 million. Despite all that, ABC last week plunged into the coaxial morass again with its biggest cable venture ever. The company paid $202 million for the U.S.'s most popular cable service, the Entertainment and Sports Programming Network, a 24-hour channel with 30 million subscribers. ABC already owned 15% of ESPN, and will buy the remainder from Texaco, which...