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Word: pledgees (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last year's average pledge was $87, with a high response from Business and Kennedy School employees.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: United Way Campaign Nears End of Drive | 11/14/1985 | See Source »

For more than 40 years, the University has used the campaign to collate employee donations. Each department has one solicitor per 20 employees. Solicitors are responsible for distributing pledge cards to every employee in the department and returning them to the campaign office.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: United Way Campaign Nears End of Drive | 11/14/1985 | See Source »

As he spoke to the enraptured employees of Sara Lee, the word was flashed to McFarlane about the terrorists' plans to fly out of Cairo. Onstage, Reagan thundered his ire against deficits and roared another pledge to get Government spending down. "God bless you," he shouted from behind his famous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Terrorism: The Presidency: Let's Do It | 10/28/1985 | See Source »

Millard's corporate empire has been sagging as well. ComputerLand faces fierce competition from rival retailers like Entre Computer Centers. With a computer-industry slump slowing sales, ComputerLand's franchisees besieged Millard and his daughter to reduce their royalty fees, which range from 5% to 8%. Some franchisees claimed that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: All in the Family | 10/14/1985 | See Source »

Even the Reagan Administration seemed unimpressed. The day after the speech, President Reagan acted on his Sept. 9 pledge to apply economic sanctions against South Africa and ordered a ban on U.S. imports of Krugerrands, effective Oct. 11. A day later, Secretary of State George Shultz declared that apartheid was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Africa Apartheid By Another Name | 10/14/1985 | See Source »

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