Word: paid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...letters and efforts coming from both sides of this fight, Kennedy received the added advantage of help from Glimp, his long-time friend. After Kennedy wrote the letter, Glimp put him in touch with Charles J. Egan '54, and alumnus who has been active in fighting HRAAA. Egan then paid more than $9500 to publish Kennedy's letter as an advertisment in Harvard Magazine...
...Egan was chosen as the new president of the Harvard Alumni Association, the organization of all Harvard alumni responsible for nominating the 10 official overseers candidates. And Associate Vice President for University Relations John P. Reardon '60 was named the new executive director of the Alumni Association, a University-paid Administration post. Reardon reportedly asked in a speech in February, "What's to keep [HRAAA] from nominating Fidel Castro next time...
Club fees have jumped as well -- although nowhere near the staggering levels paid in golf-crazy Japan (the most expensive: $2.5 million for the Koganei Country Club near Tokyo). In Highland Park, Ill., for example, initiation fees at the Exmoor Country Club have risen from $8,000 to $25,000 in the past five years. Memberships at some private clubs in the Los Angeles area cost more than $50,000, and $2,500 annually thereafter. But so far, golf aficionados are willing to pay those prices. Fore...
Speaking with the same bluntness heard at past party plenums, Gorbachev did not gloss over the country's continuing shortages in food and consumer goods, but he also contended that many Soviets had forgotten how to work and "had * got used to the fact that they are often paid just for coming to work." His harshest words were targeted at bumbling bureaucrats. Gorbachev told how one ministry had imported almost 30 million medical syringes without ensuring that there were needles to go with them...
Genuine celebs will mingle with the fans of Hollywood Boulevard each day (Cyd Charisse this week). But the basic idea of Disney-MGM is that the visitor is the star. Bobby-soxed employees clamor for your autograph, demand to be photographed with your family of four (who have paid about $110 for a day at the park). In the SuperStar Television show, you guest-star in ingeniously integrated scenes from I Love Lucy, Today, The Ed Sullivan Show or General Hospital. On the 90-min. Studio Tour you don a yellow slicker and become skipper of the good ship Miss...