Word: pledgees
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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As applause followed the dutiful clinking of vodka glasses, Mitterrand rose to deliver his response. Alternately reading from notes and ad-libbing, the French President paid tribute to Soviet bravery during World War II ("I know the price you paid with spilled blood and 20 million dead"), but then blamed...
Reagan raised the East-West issue at nearly every opportunity. In Dublin, he gave a new answer to a longstanding Soviet proposal that the superpowers sign a pledge not to use force to settle international disputes. In the past, the U.S. has dismissed the idea as meaningless, since the notion...
The President's statements were intended to smother some of the prospects for discord at the summit, and they succeeded. Few of the issues that should have divided the seven leaders were allowed to disturb the tone of the meeting, even though, as the gathering concluded, about 150,000...
As far as Harvard's expansion is concerned, we did not have much success. The affiliated hospital complex--now called the Peter Bent Brigham and Women's Hospital--has been built. My class agent reports that the University's coffers are full and the alumni ready to pledge. Especially when...
But even that effort proved too small to keep panicky corporate customers in the U.S., Europe and Japan from withdrawing $8 billion a day in deposits. By week's end the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and private lenders had to pump $2 billion directly into Continental. Though it normally...