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...months ago the University created a new position in the Development Office and selected Thomas Stephenson, a top-ranking public relations executive, to fill the post. University officials hoped Stephenson, a 40-year employee of the DuPont Corporation and a veteran of many corporate gift-giving decisions, would be able to bring unique insight to his new coordinating task. As director of corporations, he was given responsibility for coordinating the Harvard Campaign's corporate solicitation strategy...
...stars to astronomers is an object in the constellation Aquila (Eagle) that seems simultaneously to be hurtling toward and away from us. It is designated SS 433 because it was the 433rd object listed in a catalogue published a few years ago by Case Western Reserve Astronomers C. Bruce Stephenson and Nicholas Sanduleak. But it is also listed in a standard inventory of variable stars (whose light brightens and dims) as V1343 Aquilae. If the myriad catalogues are something of a hodgepodge, a semblance of order is maintained by the International Astronomical Union, the organization of the world...
Similarly, Thomas W. Stephenson, the new director of corporate gifts for the Campaign, foresees a continued positive response from the business sector--despite some studies indicating that the new tax laws may eventually eliminate incentive for corporations to practice philanthropy. He says that, having worked in business for years, he is confident that corporations have more in mind than tax write-offs when contributing to universities...
...used, and that would increase our gas tax revenue." Indeed, in each year since 1974, the states have collectively been deprived of perhaps $250 million in taxes on the 3.4 billion gal. of gas a 55 m.p.h. speed limit is said to save annually. Admits Colorado State Representative Bob Stephenson: "Money drives this issue." Perhaps. Yet it is mostly the myth that citizens have some divine right to barrel down the highway unfettered by law or prudence that makes a good idea seem dangerously unAmerican...
After a statement by the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini in September set the unfreezing of the assets as a condition for releasing the hostages, financial negotiations began to heat up. Roger Brown, a lawyer with the Stephenson firm, began direct talks with the twelve American banks* that held Iran's frozen assets...