Word: projects
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Warren S. Berg '44 remembers when the company invested $65,000 to buy ice cream trucks for the project. "That was one of the real risks. The students made money, but we lost in the long haul because we were [up against] professionals," says Berg, who was chairman of the HSA Board of Directors from the company's inception until...
...There should be a special procedure whereby a Harvard student who has an idea for a business project can present it to the HSA board," says Ackman, adding, "Once you systematize it, it'll make it easier...
Councillor Walter J. Sullivan Jr. indefinitely postponed action on Wolf's proposal to monitor traffic at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's University Park development. Her proposal would have continuously checked whether or not traffic around the project was below limits set in the University Park zoning package...
...legal counsel for Bruce Rappaport, a Geneva-based international oilman, who was to handle the pipeline oil sales. Citing his closeness to Meese, Wallach contacted several Administration officials to see if money earmarked for Israel by Congress could be used to insure the pipeline against an Israeli attack. The project was abandoned when proposed lenders asked for guarantees of repayment even if the line was damaged. No one could, or would, provide them...
Bush says he may have been out of the room at the time, and doesn't recall the two Secretaries' strenuous opposition. Had he heard them, Bush has said, "I would have moved to reconsider the whole project." A computer message, which was sent by John Poindexter only a few weeks later, noted the high-level opposition to the arms sales and concluded that the "President and V.P. are solid in taking the position that we have...