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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Very severe. It would set any change back for a long time...
Stevens agrees that HMC's set-up helps keep talented managers. But, he says, "There's a possible disadvantage in not having the flexibility to decide that someone--no matter how much time they're spending--isn't doing a good job. It's a different kind of decision to say to someone, 'We don't like you and we're going to fire you,' than to tell a company, 'We're going to move to a different company...
...reason Harvard can attract the kind of huge gifts it is counting on during its five-year, $250 million Harvard Campaign is its "good aura of investment management," Putnam says. "Alumni will only give when they think their money will be managed well--people will set up trust funds for Yale," putting a gift in a private manager's hands and sending Yale the interest, he says. But he adds that Yale's "aura" is worse than it deserves...
TODAY'S HOLLYWOOD PRODUCER hunts for film scripts like Nero once combed for concubines, but while the Roman mogul's search uncovered ample talent, the Sunset Boulevard set's has unearthed little. The insatiable public demand for commercial properties so far outstrips the screenwriters' meager production that producers are forced to fall back on proven story ideas. The resulting list of products reads like a Porcellian Club roster--Godfather II, Jaws 2, Rocky II, and Gone with the Wind...
...beat them last year soon wore off and at 22:15 Cat Ferrante put Harvard on the scoreboard. Streaking across to the left-hand side of the field from her right-wing position, Ferrante picked up a punt from goalie Carle, dodged a defenseman and rammed it home to set the halftime score...