Word: recruits
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...vcrs and gadgets of the future. He started slowly at first by acquiring CBS Records for $2 billion in 1987. The real spree began in 1989 when Schulhof paid $3.4 billion for perennial also-ran Columbia and its sister TriStar studios. He immediately spent some $800 million more to recruit Batman producers Jon Peters and Peter Guber, who had never headed a major film company, to run the acquisitions. Next, Schulhof popped for a $175 million make-over of Columbia's movie lot in Culver City, California, and threw in daily deliveries of fresh fruit and flowers to studio executives...
...races. "Action alerts," "phonegrams" and other solicitations repeatedly ask contributors for money to help win control of the House. In a letter to textile magnate Roger Milliken, GOPAC chairman Howard ("Bo") Callaway invited the Republican financier to a Washington meeting and vowed, "We will be looking at plans to recruit and support candidates in 210 congressional districts across the country...
...known in recent years as the final club for football players, recently went under due to a combination of factors. The club had been shut down down since last year after an ugly incident in which a football recruit was hospitalized after a fight with club members. But the more important issue is that the D.U. served as a den of sexism, elitism and chronic drunkeness...
...crew recruit, however, was shocked on her recruiting top when a Mather House elevator opened to reveal several drunk, naked men. After many assurances from her host that this was not typical for this campus, the recruit enrolled at Harvard...
Athletic powers often recruit against Harvard by noting that the University does not give athletic scholarships. But officials here say need based and covers many athletes from poor and lower middle class backgrounds...