Word: silver
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Harvard Dining Services Director Michael P. Berry has been honored with the national Silver Plate Award as the outstanding food-service professional at colleges and universities...
Criteria for the Silver Plate Award include outstanding management, marketing, human resources, industry and civic participation...
...International Foodservice Manufacturers Association gives Silver Plate Awards in each of nine categories; Berry won the colleges and universities division...
What kind of network will Silver King become in its wildest, Cinderella-like dreams? Diller intends, he says, to build it from the bottom up with local programming--a national network of distinct and separate voices. It almost sounds like a koan: When is a network not a network? Of course, this is precisely the kind of counterintuitive thinking that has drawn Diller admirers and partners like investment banker Herbert Allen and Tele-Communications Inc.'s John Malone. In practical terms, however, Diller's plan would seem almost too counterintuitive, given the fact that Silver King stations currently produce almost...
...Diller wanted to do things the easy or obvious way he could have; he reputedly turned down offers in the past year from both Edgar Bronfman Jr. (to run MCA Universal) and Michael Eisner (to join him as No. 2 man at Disney). "Barry has had these unbelievable silver trays offered to him, and he's always said no," says his best friend, designer Diane Von Furstenberg. Why no? "He's not a pig," she explains. "It's not about greed with him. It's ambition, it's vision, and that makes him different and makes him a nice person...