Word: preferments
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...also apparently agreed the timing was not right, though Lee's niece Miky may still be an investor in DreamWorks. Geffen puts the discussion in bolder relief: "They wanted more than we were willing to give them. We didn't want one group to have too much control. We prefer having three 3,000-lb. gorillas in the room with us to one 9,000-lb. gorilla." And Spielberg did in fact learn something from the evening: "I realized that whoever became our equity partners, we needed to communicate in the same language...
...final club between a football recruit and club members. High school senior John Burnham, who sustained a blow-out fracture on his left eye in the fight, never should have been at the club. Moreover, the subsequent hush-up of the incident again suggests that College officials prefer minimizing publicity to exacting appropriate punishments from blameworthy students...
Many science students understandably prefer a departmental history class as opposed to a Historical Studies B class and, like the humanities oriented, should be permitted to satisfy a requirement with such a course rather than spending one of their precious few electives. Both the science concentrators and humanities-inclined are denied this logical maximization of Harvard resources and possibilities...
Opponents argue that the scheme would introduce bad incentives into the system by tempting high earners to conceal income. What some of them would prefer to see is a gradual, across-the-board reduction of benefits. One way that could be accomplished is by ending the special protection against inflation granted to Social Security pensions, which are increased every year to offset the full amount of inflation. Cost of living adjustments in most private pensions and in workers' wages are limited to part, if any, of the annual increase in prices. Why should Social Security pensioners alone be fully protected...
...race." Powell has taken public positions on more divisive issues than many realize, from the balanced-budget amendment (he doesn't like tinkering with the Constitution because Congress can't find the will to spend responsibly) to abortion (he thinks there's no excuse for unwanted pregnancy, would prefer that women carry all fetuses to term but would not ban abortions). Those who want him to be President think the press overrates the importance to voters of detailed positions anyway. They think Americans will simply trust Powell to make reasonable choices, based on his long record of competence and moderation...