Word: staff
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...without special permission from the dean of admissions; in fact, no coach can even "initiate contact" with a high school athlete. The theory is that the athlete is not a special quantity, that he or she must seek out Harvard rather than vice versa--an interesting fiction the athletic staff has perpetuated by delegating its responsibility for finding promising athletes to a national network of alumni...
Members of the Lampoon's executive board could not be reached to comment last night on the car's purchase. However, one member of the Lampoon staff, who asked not to be identified, said yesterday he does not think the Eldorado's new owner has "all his screws in the right place...
...them. Instead, potential tourists, pinched by inflation and recession and frightened by forecasts of bumper-to-bumper traffic at historic sites, stayed home. Attendance topped the 1975 figure by only a few thousand; during the fall and winter, visitors were so few that Williamsburg laid off 3% of its staff...
...Howard to handle a $2 bet? A college dropout who had held 25 different jobs between 1962 and 1969, he started Howard Associates on begged and borrowed money in a one-bedroom apartment in Flatbush. Not until 1973 did he feel that he could afford a downtown office and staff. He is behind his desk by 8 o'clock most mornings, burrowing through 4-ft. piles of research reports. "I've been out for lunch once in the last five years," he laments...
...running time. When events begin to overwhelm dramatic logic, Director Attenborough loses his design in the smoke and din of a huge, confused battle. Then, too, there is an attempt to humanize the conflict by recounting sundry vignettes of what life was like for troops serving below staff level. By the time James Caan has got his wounded captain to hospital and Elliott Gould has thrown a temporary bridge across a stream in record time and Robert Redford has led an amphibious assault, the flow of battle has been lost by the moviemakers - and by the audience as well...